In response to COVID-19 most governments used some form of lockdown policy to manage the pandemic. This required making … iterative policy decisions in a rapidly changing epidemiological environment resulting in varying levels of lockdown stringency … over time. While studies estimating the labour market effects of lockdown policies exist in both developed and developing …

India may influence COVID-19's impact through the differential impact of lockdown policies across caste and religious groups …, as well as across states and urban-rural areas. In so doing, we build upon Egger et al. (2020)'s lockdown readiness index …. India, the second most populous country in the world, is a relevant case for such analysis, not only because it has …

market shocks on different caste groups. We find that while all caste groups lost jobs in the first month of the lockdown …

This study examines the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the related nationwide lockdown on the Indian economy …, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India who seem to have suffered … 2917 migrant workers in six different states of India. At the end, the study gives recommendations on how to broaden the …