Overview
- Gives longer-term developmental perspective to contextualize COVID-19 pandemic in India
- Enables understanding of successes and gaps in policy responses against myriad developmental challenges
- Discusses topics such as finance, macroeconomics, agriculture, education, labor, gender, nutrition, and health
Part of the book series: India Studies in Business and Economics (ISBE)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Indrani Gupta is Professor and Head of the Health Policy Research Unit (HPRU) of the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG). She received her PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland, USA. Prof Gupta’s work experience has been diverse, including teaching and academic institutes, the World Bank and the Government of India. Her areas of interest cover a wide range of topics in the area of health economics and policy, and include demand for health and health care, health financing and coverage, poverty and health, costing and cost-effectiveness and economics of diseases.
Mausumi Das is Professor at the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi where she has been teaching since 2005. Previously she has also held faculty positions at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a visiting position at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Her areas of interest are economic growth and development macroeconomics. She has published in top field journals such as Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contextualizing the COVID Pandemic in India
Book Subtitle: A Development Perspective
Editors: Indrani Gupta, Mausumi Das
Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4906-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4905-2Published: 28 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4908-3Due: 11 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4906-9Published: 27 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2198-0012
Series E-ISSN: 2198-0020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 314
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 89 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Public Policy, Labor Economics, Health Economics