Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India

1. Front Matter

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2. Impact of Covid-19 on Macroeconomic Developments: Recession, Recovery and Assessment

   • Manoj Panda

   Pages 1-22

3. Primary Health Care and Resilience of Health Systems

   • Indrani Gupta

   Pages 23-46

4. Lives, Livelihoods and Government Support in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Bihar

   • Gaurav Datt, Swati Dutta, Sunil Kumar Mishra

   Pages 47-69

5. The Impact of the Pandemic on Social Vulnerabilities in India

   • Archana Dang, Mausumi Das, Indrani Gupta

   Pages 71-86

6. COVID-19 and Education in India: A New Education Crisis in the Making

   • Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

   Pages 87-107

7. The Penalty of Being Young: India’s Workers During the Pandemic

   • Rosa Abraham, Mrinalini Jha

   Pages 109-125

8. Social Protection Policies and Women’s Employment During COVID-19

   • Nikita Sangwan, Swati Sharma

   Pages 127-141

9. The Covid-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid Work, Domestic Chores and Leisure: Evidence from India’s First Wave

   • Ashwini Deshpande

   Pages 143-168

10. Chronicling the Observed Gendered Effects in India’s Labor Markets During COVID-19

    • Mitali Nikore, Areen S. Deshmukh, Mannat Sharma, Tanvi Mahant

    Pages 169-197

11. India’s COVID-19 Vaccination Drive: Its Relevance in Managing the Pandemic

    • Santanu Pramanik, Abhinav Motheram

    Pages 199-223

12. COVID-19 Vaccination Status and Hesitancy: Survey Evidence from Rural India

    • Sneha Shashidhara, Sharon Barnhardt, Shagata Mukherjee

    Pages 225-247

13. Impact of COVID-19 on Agricultural Markets: Assessing the Roles of Commodity Characteristics, Disease Caseload, and Market Reforms

    • Deepak Varshney, Devesh Roy, J. V. Meenakshi

    Pages 249-271

14. India’s Credit Landscape in a Post-pandemic World

    • Rajeswari Sengupta, Harsh Vardhan

    Pages 273-295

15. Trust and Public Policy: Lessons from the Pandemic

    • Mausumi Das, Ajit Mishra

    Pages 297-314

This book brings together contributions that explore various dimensions of the pandemic from a long-term development perspective. It also analyzes the existing policy responses and the gaps therein, to enable a greater understanding of how public policy – during a pandemic like COVID-19 – can be better aligned with the developmental challenges faced by individuals and households in India. Through its thirteen contributions, the book highlights the connection between the pandemic and development as deep and multilayered, and not unidirectional. It highlights how the existing inequalities and inequities in the system determined who gets impacted and to what extent, and how soon they can recover, if at all. It analyzes policies and programmes that have been implemented based mostly on the immediate pandemic crisis, and responded less to the pre-existing conditions that have shaped socio-economic outcomes. The book would be a great resource to study possible future responses to similar health disasters in a multi-cultural, multi-religion, multi-caste and multi-class melting pot like India.

• COVID-19
• Development Economics
• India
• Labour
• Health
• Gender
• Education
• Public Policy

• Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India

  Indrani Gupta

• Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

  Mausumi Das

Indrani Gupta is Professor and Head of the Health Policy Research Unit (HPRU) of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, USA.  Prof Gupta’s work experience has been diverse, including teaching and academic institutes, the World Bank and the Government of India. Her areas of interest cover a wide range of topics in the area of health economics and policy, and include demand for health and health care, health financing and coverage, poverty and health, costing and cost-effectiveness and economics of diseases.

Mausumi Das is Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi where she has been teaching since 2005. Previously she has also held faculty positions at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a visiting position at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Her areas of interest are economic growth and development macroeconomics. She has published in top field journals such as Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.