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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746964003321

Autore

Gupta Indrani

Titolo

Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India [[electronic resource] ] : A Development Perspective / / edited by Indrani Gupta, Mausumi Das

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

981-9949-06-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

India Studies in Business and Economics, , 2198-0020

Altri autori (Persone)

DasMausumi

Disciplina

362.196241400954

Soggetti

Development economics

Political planning

Labor economics

Medical economics

Development Economics

Public Policy

Labor Economics

Health Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

An Unequal Recovery – The Income and Employment Fallout of the Pandemic -- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on India’s Financial Sector -- Macroeconomic Performance During COVID Recession and Recovery -- Impact of COVID‑19 on agricultural markets: assessing the roles of commodity characteristics, disease caseload and market reforms -- COVID-19 and Education in India: A New Education Crisis in the Making -- The COVID-19 pandemic and gendered division of paid work, domestic chores and leisure: evidence from India’s first wave -- Chronicling the observed gendered effects in India’s labour markets during COVID-19 -- COVID, Social Protection and Women's Work -- Over-nutrition and COVID Prevalence in India: Evidence and Implications -- India’s COVID-19 Vaccination Drive: How did we fare? -- The Impact of COVID-19 on Risk Perception and Wellbeing in India -- Livelihoods and Government Support in the Wake of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Bihar -- Role of Trust in Effective Policy making: Lessons from the Pandemic.



Sommario/riassunto

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.