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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rolling back the induced livelihood shock -Sumit Mazumdar and Indranil

Rolling back the induced livelihood shock -Sumit Mazumdar and Indranil

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published Published on Jul 7, 2020   modified Modified on Jul 7, 2020

-The Hindu

Specific policy measures can reverse the lockdown-created trauma and stop it from snowballing into chronic poverty

For most regions across the country, the long lockdown has just got over. As the “unlocking” begins, it is becoming increasingly apparent how the Indian state had chosen its sides and revealed its elitist bias during one of the most stringently enforced lockdowns worldwide. Several news reports and surveys on the plight of India’s less-privileged workforce during the lockdown have highlighted the massive scale of falling incomes and loss of means of livelihood. Many have been pushed into various depths of poverty depending on how vulnerable their occupations were. Quantifying the likely scale of the poverty impacts of the lockdown, we use most recent workforce survey data on India to estimate what the lockdown-induced livelihood shock might have meant economically for different categories of workers. We suggest some potential policy measures to prevent the shocks from further snowballing into chronic poverty.

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The Hindu, 7 July, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rolling-back-the-induced-livelihood-shock/article32006795.ece?homepage=true


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