Growth, poverty and inequality implications of Covid-19
The economy is being adversely impacted through a host of transmission channels, both global and national.
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06, 2020
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05, 2020
Life after the pandemic
Will there be any changes in social, cultural and institutional norms, political systems and governance patterns?
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07, 2020
Covid: The State-citizen trust deficit
This distrust has shaped official communication, relief and the health response to the pandemic.
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03, 2020
Migrant workers distrust a state that does not take them into account
Field studies have consistently claimed short-term labour mobility in India was significant.
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04, 2020
Institutional challenges to migrants’ welfare
State welfare boards’ capacities to offer assistance varies, hampering daily wage labourers’ access to social and food security.
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06, 2020
COVID-19: We Need to Extend Social Discipline to Manage Preventable Diseases
Most of the diseases that cause 80 percent of mortalities in the countryside can be averted through basic health care [...]
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04, 2020
Covid an excuse to push Indian Muslims out of informal sector jobs. Apartheid the next step
What Muslims are facing now is a new form of concerted, deliberate economic marginalisation.
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04, 2020
Firefighting the pandemic is inadvertently teaching India how to govern migration
The emergence of previously unseen migrants has shone a light on mobility questions that the state has shied away from.
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05, 2020
We need to reintegrate informal workers into livelihoods
This section of people should be included in the government’s Tk760 crore scheme of income support.
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08, 2020
No choice between lives and livelihoods
Lockdown may be protecting vulnerable people from being affected by COVID-19, but they are now affected by poverty and hunger.