COVID-19 pandemic has spared no country. Yet, the degree of infection and consequent deaths have differed vastly. There is, as yet, no scientific explanation based on climatic or genetic differences in populations. However, there seems to be an emerging consensus that public management matters. This article looks at three largest countries in the World and finds that outcomes in India, measured in terms of deaths from COVID-19 virus, are a fraction of deaths compared to other two large populous countries and appears to be an outlier. This article examines the public management response of a democratic government and draws lessons for effective public management in dealing with other grand public management challenges of our times.

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印度对冠状病毒大流行的反应：有效公共管理的九个教训

COVID-19 大流行没有幸免于难。然而，感染的程度和随之而来的死亡却大不相同。迄今为止，还没有基于种群气候或遗传差异的科学解释。然而，公共管理问题似乎正在形成一种共识。本文着眼于世界上三个最大的国家，发现印度的结果（以 COVID-19 病毒的死亡人数衡量）与其他两个人口大国相比只是死亡人数的一小部分，似乎是一个异常值。本文考察了民主政府对公共管理的反应，并为有效的公共管理在应对我们时代的其他重大公共管理挑战中汲取了经验教训。