We consider the largely unexpected shock caused by the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India to assess whether …

Pradesh, India, in which we provide an information brief about COVID-19 by phone to a random subsample of participants to …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

using data from India. We argue that a core-periphery economic structure is likely to increase the spread of infection … contagion needs to be heterogeneous across India, depending on the ex-ante economic structure of a region. …

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

of India and finds that conditional on a range of individual, household, and regional characteristics, adult BMI …-risk populations in developing countries like India. …