Tag Search: “public health”
Covid-19: The infected economy
India, along with much of the world, is now in a lockdown. But the cost of locking down the country is particularly high for the urban poor in India. Besides, the reality of urban living reduces the e...
- Amartya Lahiri
- 18 April, 2020
- Perspectives
India’s battle against Covid-19: A comparative perspective
It has been suggested that, India could selectively relax the lockdown that has been imposed on it, given its favourable demographic profile. In this post, Ghosh and Pal argue that having a younger po...
- Sugata Ghosh Sarmistha Pal
- 16 April, 2020
- Perspectives
The State’s frontline workers: An overlooked human resource
The Covid-19 and the related lockdown have focused the nation's attention on two groups of people who number in millions but have still somehow not received adequate attention: the migrant informal wo...
- Vishwanath Giriraj
- 15 April, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Only germs this time, no guns and steel (yet)?
The first round of globalisation over the previous centuries was associated with a transmission of diseases between continents. With Covid-19, history seems to be repeating itself, but this time in th...
- Anindya Chakrabarti Chirantan Chatterjee
- 14 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Financing of fiscal response to Covid-19: A red herring?
Governments around the world are frenetically announcing an expanding slew of rapid response measures to address the fallouts of Covid-19 pandemic. The fiscal price tag on these measures is massive an...
- Ayushi Bajaj Gaurav Datt
- 12 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Reserves to the rescue
On 27 March 2020, the Government of India announced a relief package of Rs. 1.7 trillion to deal with the Covid-19 crisis and its possible adverse effects on the economy. A view put forth by critics i...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 11 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Age composition of population and Covid-19
The novel Covid-19 is affecting the advanced countries in the Western Hemisphere disproportionately more than developing countries. In this post, Basu and Sen show that Covid-19 casualty is higher in ...
- Parantap Basu Kunal Sen
- 10 April, 2020
- Perspectives
We need a Marshall Plan to fight Covid-19
There are still a lot of unknowns in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, but two robust lessons are clear: we need to pull out all stops to strengthen our healthcare capacity and reinforce social...
- Parikshit Ghosh
- 08 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Lockdown, life, and livelihood in the times of Corona
After around 36 hours of the lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in India, the Finance Minister announced a slew of welfare measures amounting to Rs. 1.7 trillion to support the vulnerable popu...
- Arjun Kumar Balwant Singh Mehta Simi Mehta
- 07 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Curated content and resources
Watch this space as we bring together our pick of articles, videos, and podcasts as well as useful links with credible information on Covid-19.
- I4I Team
- 07 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part II
In Part I of this piece, the authors made broad recommendations to guide the government’s response to Covid-19 in India. In this part, they identify five salient population groups that are particularl...
- Abhinash Borah Sabyasachi Das Aparajita Dasgupta Ashwini Deshpande Kanika Mahajan Bharat Ramaswami Anuradha Saha Anisha Sharma
- 03 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part I
As this may be the first of many future lockdowns to stamp out possible repeated outbreaks of Covid-19, policymakers must be prepared to provide relief to adversely affected individuals. With this in ...
- Abhinash Borah Sabyasachi Das Aparajita Dasgupta Ashwini Deshpande Kanika Mahajan Bharat Ramaswami Anuradha Saha Anisha Sharma
- 02 April, 2020
- Perspectives