-PTI/ Livemint.com WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said many countries around the world are waiting for the distribution to happen as they have been watching vaccination programmes beginning and scaling in high-income countries Hyderabad: The first shipment from India under COVAX, the global initiative to ensure rapid and equitable access to COVID-19 Vaccines for all countries, is likely to roll out this week, WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Monday. "Not...
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Budget 2021 Expectations: A budget full of hope, a transformative opportunity for India’s women and girls -Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Sona Mitra and Kanika Jha Kingra
-Financial Express Union Budget 2021 Expectations by Women: The Union Budget 2021-22 presents an opportunity to ensure that India’s economic growth and development is inclusive. Union Budget 2021-22 Expectations by Women: The year 2021 started with a renewed sense of hope, with Vaccines for COVID-19 being rolled out across several nations. There is also hope that countries will be able to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels of growth by designing and delivering...
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-The Hindu Keynesian economics offers guidelines for preparing the Budget The Great Depression wrecked the economies of the U.S. and Europe. In the words of Jonathan Alter, when Franklin Roosevelt became the American President in 1933, he was told: “Mr. President, if your programme succeeds you would be the greatest President in American history. If it fails, you will be the worst one”. Roosevelt replied: “If it fails, I will be the...
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-The Hindu Vaccination is important to prevent a second wave Several people have questioned the emergency approval given to the indigenously developed COVID-19 Vaccine. They have demanded efficacy data and cast aspersions on the regulatory machinery. Such views will only increase Vaccine hesitancy. It is not the case that the Vaccine developed indigenously is being pushed by vested interests, while the international Vaccines are great. Questions have been raised about the Moderna and...
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-The Indian Express The current scenario is ideal for policymakers and practitioners to drive home the importance of health spending and institutional development With the first batch of anti-COVID Vaccines being rolled out, the mood of the nation seems to be upbeat as it bids farewell to the pain and anguish of last year. The emergency-use approval to the Vaccine developed by Oxford University and the Swedish-British pharma major AstraZeneca, manufactured in...
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