Special Issue Call for Papers:

Millennial Asia – An International

Journal of Asian Studies
COVID-19 Pandemic:
The Asian Experience

Editors
Lakhwinder Singh
Punjabi University, Patiala, India ISSN: 0976-3996
3 issues a year
Sukhpal Singh
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India

The deadly infectious disease COVID-19 originated in Asia. It was noticed in the Wuhan
city of the Hubei province of China towards the end of December 2019. In a very short
span of time, the COVID-19 disease has spread all over the globe. Its higher impact in
terms of mortality rate was observed in Western developed countries. However, the Asian

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countries have shown early alertness and undertaken preventive measures such as physical
distancing, ensuring hygiene, use of masks and testing to control the spread of the disease.
The lockdown measure was also applied in varied forms across the Asian countries. There
were several innovations in the healthcare products, processes and institutions across
several countries of the world. This disease has had devastating effects on the economy,
institutions and society of the Asian countries. The international institutional arrangements
almost turned out to be dysfunctional and the desired collective efforts are missing in terms
of developing a vaccine and therapeutic medicine. In the absence of any medical solution,
institutional measures were widely applied by various countries to save human population
but it severely affected the livelihoods of the very same population. Thus, the disruption of
economic activities including international trade resulted into huge losses across activities
and revenue losses to the governments. The disruption time is largely a function of the
time taken to control the disease. The Asian countries, engine of growth of the global
economy have managed this crisis somewhat innovatively and without much human loss.
The revival of the economy has consequences for the future development of the global and
national economies, and therefore both domestic public policies and global institutional
arrangements that can face the emerging challenges are needed. The public policy debate
needs to be informed based on well-founded intellectual inputs. Therefore, a special issue
of Millennial Asia is proposed. The research articles preferably comparative in approach
(across countries or sectors) and sound both in theory and empirical relevance will be
selected for publication after following the due process of the journal. The research articles
not exceeding 8000 words are invited in the following areas:
  1. COVID-19 and International Economic Order
  2. COVID-19 and Healthcare System of Asian Countries
   3. COVID-19 and Revival of Economic Development in Asia
  4. COVID-19 and Innovations in Public Policy
  5. COVID-19, Employment and Social Security
  6. COVID-19, Food Security and Agricultural Development
  7. COVID-19 and Future of Education and Learning
  8. COVID-19, Poverty and Sustainable Development
  9. COVID-19, Climate Change Implications and Lessons
10. COVID-19 and Disruptions of Global, Regional and National Value/Supply Chains and
Implications for Suppliers, Producers and Workers
The timeline of submission to the special issue is:
• Submission of full papers to the Editors via  Millennial Asia submission system, in
accordance with Millennial Asia’s submission guidelines by 30 June 2020.
• The Editors will screen the submissions first to ensure appropriate scope, relevance and
quality and send relevant papers for double-blind review.
• First round of reviewers’ responses on submitted papers: 25 July 2020.
• Submission of revised papers: 10 August 2020.
• Second round of reviewers’ response on revised papers: 20 August 2020.
• Submission of final version to Millennial Asia portal: 27 August 2020.
• Expected publication of special issue in Millennial Asia: December 2020.