unemployment

Response to COVID-19

COVID-19: Lockdown Impact on Informal Sector in India

  • July 29, 2020

COVID-19 will initiate a new realignment. First, there may be a tendency to use suppliers in more expensive locations (but closer to major markets) by replacing labour with capital. Second, in the medium term, we will see greater exclusion of productive activities by global value chains from the informal economy. Both will be at the expense of countries that want to take advantage of their low labour costs by engaging in manufacturing supply chain.
Response to COVID-19

Unequal Impact: COVID-19 Will Hit Youth Harder

  • July 6, 2020

The current pandemic, once more, underscores the requirement of the universal basic income to have a safety net for the vulnerable section of the population. Social protection measures, like unemployment benefits for youth through active fiscal policy, will be a relief for millions of youth affected.
Response to COVID-19

COVID-19: Response of France and Some Lessons for India

  • May 18, 2020

Although France’s health system weathered the storm unleashed by the coronavirus outbreak, the crisis exposed the cost of abandoning its erstwhile long-term pandemic response strategy. While that strategy drew ridicule for pouring in one billion euros of taxpayer money for stockpiling masks and testing tools, two months of lockdown has cost 120 billion euros in lost revenue.
Notes on Strategy

Why We Need Development Practitioners

  • August 9, 2018

It is important to note the persistence of a high level of poverty and underdevelopment in India, despite its achievements in the economic sphere and the income growth for a relatively smaller section of the society.

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