Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Socioeconomic determinants of COVID-19 in Asian countries: An empirical analysis Description An account of the resource The spread of coronavirus disease, 2019, has affected several countries in the world including Asian countries. The occurrences of COVID infections are uneven across countries and the same is determined by socioeconomic situations prevailing in the countries besides the preparedness and management. The paper is an attempt to empirically examine the socioeconomic determinants of the occurrence of COVID in Asian countries considering the data as of June 18, 2020, for 42 Asian countries. A multiple regression analysis in a cross-sectional framework is specified and ordinary least square (OLS) technique with heteroscedasticity corrected robust standard error is employed to obtain regression coefficients. Explanatory variables that are highly collinear have been dropped from the analysis. The findings of the study show a positive significant association of per capita gross national income and net migration with the incidence of total COVID-19 cases and daily new cases. The size of net migration emerged to be a potential factor and positive in determining the total and new cases of COVID. Social capital as measured by voters' turnout ratio (VTR) in order to indicate the people's participation is found to be significant and negative for daily new cases per million population. People's participation has played a very important role in checking the incidence of COVID cases and its spread. In alternate models, countries having high incidence of poverty are also having higher cases of COVID. Though the countries having higher percentage of aged populations are more prone to be affected by the spread of virus, but the sign of the coefficient of this variable for Asian country is not in the expected line. Previous year health expenditure and diabetic prevalence rate are not significant in the analysis. Therefore, people-centric plan and making people more participatory and responsive in adhering to the social distancing norms in public and workplace and adopting preventive measures need to be focused on COVID management strategies. The countries having larger net migration and poverty ratio need to evolve comprehensive and inclusive strategies for testing, tracing, and massive awareness for sanitary practices, social distancing, and following government regulation for management of COVID-19, besides appropriate food security measures and free provision of sanitary kits for vulnerable section. 2020 John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Varkey R.S.; Joy J.; Sarmah G.; Panda P.K. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Journal of Public Affairs, Vol-21, No. 4 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available John Wiley and Sons Ltd Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2021-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2532" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2532</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85093501033&amp;doi=10.1002%2Fpa.2532&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=66743020d943b7a794e6f15539a8f411" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85093501033&amp;doi=10.1002%2fpa.2532&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=66743020d943b7a794e6f15539a8f411</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource All Open Access; Green Open Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 14723891 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Varkey R.S., Department of Economics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Joy J., Department of Economics, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India; Sarmah G., Department of Economics, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India; Panda P.K., Department of Economics, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, India