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The pandemic and the package

The government has announced a package of fiscal and monetary policy actions, and broader economic reforms to set the economy back on track after the Covid-19 lockdown. In this post, Sengupta and Vard...

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Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future

The impact of the ongoing Covid pandemic is turning out to be multidimensional, and among the long-run considerations that it has brought to the fore are population and pollution. In the run up to Wor...

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Webinar video: The new Coronavirus and the Indian economy

The global pandemic has created a terrible trade-off for every country between an economic crisis caused by a shutdown of the economic activity and a health crisis and fatalities as the healthcare sys...

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कोविड-19: संकटग्रस्त स्कूली शिक्षा और व्याप्त शैक्षणिक विषमता में अप्रत्याशित वृद्धि

कोविड-19 महामारी ने भारत के स्कूलों में पहले से ही व्याप्त घोर असमानता को और बढ़ा दिया है। इस लेख में मार्टिन हॉस और अभिषेक आनंद ने तीन व्यापक विषयों पर चर्चा की है - डिजिटल डिवाइड, इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर डिव...

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Covid-19: Escaping the economic dangers

As long as the spread of Covid-19 is not controlled in India, there is a threat of new complete or partial lockdowns in response. In this post, E. Somanathan contends that any further lockdown risks i...

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Covid-19: Does the Government of India really have little fiscal space?

Several commentators have argued that the Government of India has very limited fiscal space to provide fiscal stimulus to jumpstart the economy, and spend on the poor and on medical care post Covid-19...

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कोविड-19 के प्रति सरकार की प्रतिक्रियाएँ कितनी देाषपूर्ण रही हैं? प्रवासी संकट का आकलन

कोविड-19 संकट के बीच, मार्च के अंत तक, अनगिनत प्रवासी श्रमिकों ने भारत के बंद शहरों से भाग कर अपने-अपने घरों के लिए गांवों की ओर पैदल ही जाना शुरू कर दिया। इस पोस्ट में सरमिष्‍ठा पाल यह तर्क देती हैं ...

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Rethinking ‘mobile camps’ for cancer screening

Despite public-private initiatives to increase preventive screening for cancer through mobile camps, mortality rates on account of the disease continue to be high. In this post, Ghosh and Sekar discus...

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कोविड-19 का केरल प्रबंधन: प्रमुख सीख

केरल वह पहला भारतीय राज्य था जहां एक समय कोविड-19 के सबसे अधिक मामले थे, लेकिन आज वहाँ संक्रमण वक्र सपाट हो गया है और आरोग्य प्राप्ति दर यहाँ भारत में सर्वाधिक है। इस पोस्‍ट में, एस.एम. विजयानंद, केरल...

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Covid-19: Mitigating the risk from reverse migration

One of the worst affected sections from India’s Covid-19 lockdown has been the migrant workers who have been left jobless, moneyless, and homeless. Though efforts are being made by several state gover...

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India’s Covid-19 lockdown: An interim report

In an earlier paper, Debraj Ray and S. Subramanian had argued that in developing countries like India, a perspective of "lives versus lives" may be needed to evaluate the virtues of a stringent lockdo...

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Covid-19 relief: Are women Jan Dhan accounts the right choice for cash transfers?

While the relief package announced by the Government of India for Covid-19 rightly complements food rations with cash transfers, the case for using the list of women Jan Dhan bank accounts for the lat...

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