The COVID-19 pandemic has recently become a threat all across the globe with the rising cases every day and many countries experiencing its outbreak. According to the WHO, the virus is capable of spreading at an exponential rate across countries, and India is now one of the worst-affected...

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...

We assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on CO2 emissions in India. We study the impact of COVID-19–induced control measures on the major contributors of CO2 emissions by using a difference-in-differences model and eliminating the lockdown effect. We find that all the major contributors...

In India due to the elevated fertility rate and vast population (globally next to china) mother (Janani) and child (Shishu) protection programs (Suraksha Karyakaram) are quite significant for public healthcare provision systems, especially in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic era during which most...

Child labour is a worldwide problem that primarily affects countries with lower socioeconomic positions and resources. Among the many causes for children's involvement in the workforce include societal and household poverty, parental death or incapacity/illness, a lack of social security and...

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the potential of social protection programs in mitigating labor market shocks. We examine the role of one of the world’s largest employment guarantee schemes, India’s MG-NREGA, in cushioning job losses in one of the worst affected economies due to the...

Do political statements without a scientific basis on medicines cause global pharmaceutical demand spillovers during pandemics? We examine this question using novel sales data from 2018-2020 in the Indian domestic anti-malarial drug markets. Our context is the President of the United States...

The paper demonstrates the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on travel behaviour in India during the early stage. A questionnaire, consisting of five stages, was designed for collecting peoples’ responses with respect to various aspects of travel and distributed through various online modes. A total...