Shreekant Gupta
Shreekant Gupta
Impact of COVID-19 on agricultural markets: assessing the roles of commodity characteristics, disease caseload and market reforms [0.03%]
COVID-19对农业市场的影响：评估商品特征、疾病负荷和市场改革的作用
Deepak Varshney,Devesh Roy,J V Meenakshi
Deepak Varshney
This paper assesses the impact of the spread of COVID-19 and the lockdown on wholesale prices and quantities traded in agricultural markets. We compare whether these impacts differ across non-perishable (wheat) and perishable commodities (t...
Relying on serendipity is not enough: Building a resilient health sector in India [0.03%]
印度医疗卫生事业的发展不可靠“偶然”：需要建设有弹性的医疗体系
Indrani Gupta
Indrani Gupta
The novel coronavirus has caused a global public health crisis, and impacted countries irrespective of their development status. The health system preparedness has varied across countries, necessitating a hard look at how resilient health s...
Debraj Ray,S Subramanian
Debraj Ray
The world has continued to change rapidly since the last version of this article was written on May 20, 2020. Yet, as this article goes to press, we are aware of two realities; first, that we cannot perennially chase a moving target, but se...
India in the pandemic age [0.03%]
大流行时代的印度
Sumit Guha
Sumit Guha
COVID-19 is only the latest in a series of global pandemics that began when the world of disease was united by the establishment of intensive connections by sea after 1500. India was a major participant in this process. A pandemic has both ...
Ayushi Bajaj,Gaurav Datt
Ayushi Bajaj
As governments around the world, including the Indian government, mount a fiscal response to the Covid-19 crisis, the question of how to finance it has risen to prominence. We argue that the option of the central bank monetizing the additio...
Ashima Goyal
Ashima Goyal
The paper discusses past virtuous growth cycles in India and argues that the post Covid-19 macro-financial package is an opportunity to trigger another such cycle by raising marginal propensities to spend above those to save. This is feasib...
Containing a pandemic with public actions and public trust: the Kerala story [0.03%]
依靠公众行动和公众信任来遏制疫情：喀拉拉邦的故事
Jyotsna Jalan,Arijit Sen
Jyotsna Jalan
We study the Covid pandemic in the Indian state of Kerala, and document the state's remarkable success in containing the pandemic's first wave. By identifying Kerala's initial conditions when it was hit by the pandemic, and different compon...
Pami Dua
Pami Dua
In 2016, the monetary policy framework moved towards flexible inflation targeting and a six member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was constituted for setting the policy rate. With this step towards modernization of the monetary policy proc...
Editorial note [0.03%]
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Uday Bhanu Sinha,Abhijit Banerji,Shreekant Gupta et al.
Uday Bhanu Sinha et al.