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Covid-19: Why is India doing worse than other South Asian countries? -CP Chandraskhar and Jayati Ghosh

-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org

Now that India has already overtaken Brazil among countries with the most number of Covid-19 positive cases and is on the verge of even beating the USA, it’s worth trying to understand what has led to this inability to control the pandemic in India. One of the arguments often made is that India, being a developing country with a large poor population engaged in informal work, the standard containment measures are less likely to work. The state also has fewer resources, both financial and real (in terms of health infrastructure and health workers), to combat the disease.

All this is true, but then what explains the fact that India’s performance with regard to dealing with the disease has been so much worse than other South Asian countries, most of which share similar characteristics? Figures 1 and 2 show how India has now become the worst among five major South Asian countries, in terms of both Covid-19 positive cases and deaths attributed to the disease, relative to total population. (There are known problems of undercounting both cases and deaths in India, but these are set aside for the moment, especially as such factors could also be operating in the other countries.)

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