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 …

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of … sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …