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This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy …, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India who seem to have suffered … 2917 migrant workers in six different states of India. At the end, the study gives recommendations on how to broaden the …
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economic activities post-lockdown, we found that 63.5 percent of migrants have returned to the destination areas by February … income of the migrants who are still at their native place post-lockdown contracted more than 82 percent compared to pre-lockdown … migrants at their native place in our survey. Many workers reported a fall in the quality of food consumed during the lockdown …
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India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)'s lockdown readiness index …. India, the second most populous country in the world, is a relevant case for such analysis, not only because it has …
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mechanisms of disruption. Methods: We examine the impact of lockdowns in India on institutional deliveries, skilled birth … attendance, and delivery care across public and private facilities. We compare pre-, during, and post-lockdown periods using … the lockdown compared to the pre-pandemic period. Births in private facilities also decreased during the lockdown but …
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When South Africa implemented its non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) (its "lockdown") to stem the COVID-19 … pandemic in March 2020, it was hailed as exemplary. By June 2020 however, the lockdown was in disarray: the number of confirmed … than 50,000 businesses, to have government end the lockdown altogether. In this paper we argue that both government and the …
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In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
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the impacts from the government-enforced lockdown and higher virus case numbers did not reinforce this decline. This …
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In this paper, we examine the short-term consequences of COVID-19 and evaluate the impacts of stay-at-home orders on employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment rate, decreased hours of work and labor force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221891
US states have implemented lockdown measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. We assess the impact of state policy … associated with social distancing. We find that lockdown measures are effective in alleviating disease severity, but yield …
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the coronavirus lockdown This paper will identify the effects of the coronavirus of different sectors of the country. The … paper is bases on early April 2020 and so it assumes the effect on India after the end of lockdown … low probability situation which is spreading rapidly. This report will talk about the effect on the India after the end of …
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