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Shantanu Khanna
Shantanu is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at the University of California, Irvine. He has completed his M.Phil. and Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He was previously an (ad-hoc) Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Delhi and has worked as a short-term consultant on various projects with the World Bank. His research interests are in labour economics, development economics, and experimental economics.
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कोविड-19 संकट और छोटे व्यवसायों की स्थिति: एक प्राथमिक सर्वेक्षण से निष्कर्ष
हाल के अपने बयान में, सूक्ष्म, लघु और मध्यम उद्यम मंत्रालय के केंद्रीय मंत्री ने स्वीकार किया कि यह क्षेत्र "अस्तित्व के लिए जूझ रहा है"। इस आलेख में, शांतनु खन्ना और उदयन राठौर ने, मई 2020 में, 360 से अधिक उद्यमों में किए गए अपने सर्वेक्षण के प्रमुख निष्कर्षों का उल्लेख किया है जिनमें वे इस क्षेत्र पर कोविड संकट के प्रभाव का आकलन करने पर ध्यान केंद्रित करते हैं। प्रारंभिक निष्कर्ष से ज्ञात होता है कि यह क्षेत्र अत्यधिक संकट के दौर से गुजर रहा है जिसमें सूक्ष्म उद्यमों की स्थिति सबसे खराब है।
Covid-19 crisis and health of small businesses: Findings from a primary survey
In a recent statement, the Union Minister for micro, small, and medium enterprises, acknowledged that the sector is “battling for survival”. This article reports some key findings from a survey of more than 360 enterprises, conducted in May 2020, which focusses on assessing the impact of the Covid crisis on the sector. The preliminary findings are suggestive of high levels of distress in the sector, with micro-enterprises faring the worst.
The decline of rural earning inequality in India
While earnings inequality remained virtually unchanged in urban India between 2004-05 and 2011-12, it declined sharply in rural India over this period. This column finds that although the change in the distribution of education among paid workers had an inequality-increasing effect, there was a net decline in rural inequality because returns to increased levels of education improved more for low-earning workers than high-earning ones.