Pandemic in the network society: Network readiness increases population vulnerability to COVID-19 in less developed countries

Vladimir D. Milovidov ()
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Vladimir D. Milovidov: Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), School of International Economic Relations, International Finance Department, 76, Prospect Vernadskogo, 119454, Moscow, Russian Federation

Acta Oeconomica, 2021, vol. 71, issue supplement1, 187-203

Abstract: This paper examines the factors which determine the impact of network communication and network connections on the likelihood of contracting the new coronavirus in the European and Latin American countries. The author presents several data sets to prove the following suggestions: 1) The generalized indicators of economic development and society’s globalization are not indicators of how vulnerable a country’s population may be in a pandemic, 2) Not the economy as such, but the conventional way of life of people, their daily behaviour and habits have a decisive influence on the disease spread, 3) Factors of prevention of illness and health promotion such as the habit of exercise, distance, and network communications use modern online services to become protective factors against the risk of infection only at a certain level of development of the country, 4) In the developed countries, a much broader set of factors than in the developing countries determine protection against disease risk, 5) The evolution of a networked society opens up significant opportunities for the developing countries to improve the quality of life, and the emergence of new, progressive traditions.

Keywords: COVID-19; Europe; exponentially scalable events; globalization; information technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 E21 F15 F60 I15 I31 O30 O52 O54 P52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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