Tag: ECONOMY

Fishing and the entire supply chain associated with it has been impacted by the ongoing 21-day lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.

As India fights the coronavirus pandemic, can biosecurity take precedence over food security?

Poor public health infrastructure, a great dependence on the informal sector and a lack of constructive measures is likely to leave a lasting impact on India's poor and marginalised, but its implications on the economy will impact the nation as a whole.

The lockdown has unleashed the risk of growing unemployment and has the potential to sink about 400 million people into poverty in India.

With no money, food and even fewer options, migrant workers crammed into buses or walked for days to get back to their native villages. But many of them are now stranded in quarantine wards at the state borders. 

The total lockdown in the face of coronavirus has had multiple implications for the economy and the society. The question really is whether the allocation of fund in this regard is enough to sail us through the crisis.

India’s poorest households have been hit the hardest by the economic lockdown, and the relief package seems insufficient to address their concerns.

Cooperation and compassion should be the guiding principle for organizing the entire world order as soon as possible. Can the ruling regime realise this?