Monday, August 30, 2021
In this post, Sherwin Gabriel and colleagues present results from modeling the economic effects of short-term social protection measures in South Africa, especially targeted at lower income households, in the face of new waves of infection and pressure...
Thursday, August 12, 2021
By April 2020, schools in 170 countries were closed to curtail COVID-19 transmission. In India, 247 million children have been out of the classroom for over a year. Beyond the devastating consequences school closures are having on learning,...
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Possibly even more than a public health crisis, Covid-19 is an economic crisis manifested most severely in the labour market. In the face of the pandemic, the structure of the labour market typifies the extreme vulnerability of workers in India. With...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Bangladesh’s March-May 2020 COVID-19 lockdown has had severe consequences for the incomes and food security...
Monday, June 15, 2020
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) conducted a study in the rural districts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to assess the efficacy of the PM-GKY focussing on the effectiveness of DBTs in reaching the vulnerable...
Monday, May 25, 2020
Government of India listed all food commodities as essentials allowing their free movement with a hope to avoid disruptions in food value chain during the COVID-19 lockdown. Neelkanth Mishra argues that despite such provisions, large parts of...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
India’s progress on scaling up health and nutrition services was remarkable in the pre-pandemic period. The gains made in these past years are important to preserve. Rasmi Avula, Supreet Kaur and Purnima Menon discuss the importance of existing state...
Monday, April 6, 2020
BLOG: India’s huge population, its density, and very large numbers of poor present an extraordinary challenge for the country’s COVID-19 response, and the Indian government has imposed the largest lockdown in history: 1.3 billion people ordered...
Monday, April 6, 2020
BLOG: As the world battles the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social and economic disruption it is generating, concern about the impact it will have on food systems is growing. While it is still too early to know the extent of the...
Friday, March 20, 2020
Signs of continuing economic slowdown are most visible in China, but due to broader containment measures elsewhere, including restrictions on travel, shutdowns of bars, restaurants, and other gathering places, and additional limits placed on services,...