health and economic factors in a pandemic and how appropriate “lockdown”, income transfer, and loan policies could be …

West Bengal, a subnational state of India, it shows that measures of state capacity do not map onto the pandemic response … testing and vaccination, policy response also varied from harsh implementation of lockdown during the initial phase to limp … terms of COVID-19 deaths when compared to similarly positioned subnational states of India. …

lockdown caused unprecedented economic policies and ruin. The book prepares for the next pandemic, that unquestionably will …

Countries worldwide have implemented lockdown measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic. After more than three months … while keeping the epidemic in check. Here I use basic economic principles to shed light on the key tradeoffs. A central … message is that there is no "health vs. economics" dichotomy. Rather, some degree of lockdown is typically optimal in crisis …