Managing pandemic and correcting development fundamentals: India's great challenge/ Ajitava Raychaudhuri, Arpita Ghose eds.

Includes bibliography

The Dark Shadows of Pandemic and Its Management -- The Complexity of Managing COVID-19: How Important Is Good
Governance? -- Covidonomics or the Curious Case of a Supply Constrained Keynesian Equilibrium -- Contact Intensity, Unemployment, and Finite Change - The Case of Entertainment Sector Under Pandemic: A General Equilibrium Approach -- Financing Recovery in the Post-Pandemic Indian Economy -- Envisioning the Future of Indian Higher Education in the Post-Covid Era: Challenges and Possibilities -- Trends, Patterns and Regional Variations of COVID-19 Pandemic in India at Sub-national Level: Analysis Based on Spatial Econometric Method -- The Fundamental Challenges for Development - Poverty,
Inequality, Health, Education and External Trade -- Exploring the Significance of Food Insecurity Mediated Poverty and Low Productivity Traps: Furthering Policy by Reconciling Secondary Data with Primary Survey -- State-Level Exports: An Alternate Estimate -- Subaltern Culture and Happiness in Tribal Communities of West Bengal -- Is the GST Reform Pro-poor in India? -- Public Expenditure Quality of States for Education and Health, Does Rationalisation of Grants Matter? -- Measurement and Determinants of Efficiency of Government and Government-Aided Secondary Schools in Kolkata: An Application of Data Envelopment Approach -- Unequal Inequalities in India: Income and Non-income Dimensions

This book discusses the extent and nature of COVID-19 pandemic in India and its effect on the society and economy. The suggested management practices discussed here are also not stereotype. At the same time, it highlights deficiency in development fundamentals in India on several dimensions, especially health, education, quality of public spending, taxation orientation, external trade involvement across states, etc., deficiencies which create an inbuilt bottleneck toward the creation of a more equal society. While discussing these, the book throws light on how they were expectedly exacerbated by the sudden negative shock in the form of COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, the book has highlighted the COVID pandemic and its response in India in the background of certain less discussed aspects of development fundamentals. The contents would be of interest to researchers and students studying socioeconomic aspect of developmental economics and also to policy makers and non-government entities involved in mitigating effects of pandemic in the socioeconomic sphere.