Powering Through the Pandemic: Will Covid-19 Reset India’s Approach to the Future of Electricity?
What is the future of India's electricity in a post-COVID-19 world?
What is the future of India's electricity in a post-COVID-19 world?
It is the State’s stubborn refusal to respond generously and effectively to the crisis it confronts that remains the biggest [...]
Coordinated efforts are needed to avert a prolonged crisis.
State support to the health sector, poor and vulnerable citizens, small firms and the economy, will be necessary over 2020-21.
The stimulus measures so far address the basic needs of the majority and a few specific sectors but not the [...]
this crisis will need fiscal dominance to make a comeback and monetary policy will have to play a supportive role.
Loose monetary and fiscal policies can’t be sustained for long. Comprehensive structural reforms are needed to drive growth.
Studies reveal households self-employed in agriculture or engaged in salaried jobs fared better those employed in informal sector.
What is certain is that in the present crisis, private investment is unlikely to flow for capacity building in agri-infrastructure.
The study showed that 95% of households were afraid of being infected and worried about becoming disengaged from others.