KEY TRENDS • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...
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The importance of affordable healthcare for all and other key lessons from the pandemic -Chapal Mehra & Lancelot Pinto
-Scroll.in It is important to learn from the Covid-19 crisis and transform policies and systems. Or we are destined to repeat our mistakes? Humans tend to limit memories of horrors faced in the past as a coping mechanism. In our hurry to return to normalcy, as the world and India learns to live with Covid-19, we should not forget the lessons this crisis taught us. The most important of these is the...
More »Tuberculosis deaths and disease increase during the COVID-19 pandemic
-Press release by World Health Organisation dated 27 October, 2022 An estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2021, an increase of 4.5% from 2020, and 1.6 million people died from TB (including 187 000 among HIV positive people), according to the World Health Organization’s 2022 Global TB report. The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3% between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases...
More »The future of old times in India -Jean Drèze and Esther Duflo
-The Hindu Near-universal social security pensions would be a good start to a radical expansion of public support for the elderly Life expectancy in India has more than doubled since Independence — from around 32 years in the late 1940s to 70 years or so today. Many countries have done even better, but this is still a historical achievement. Over the same period, the fertility rate has crashed from about six children...
More »HOPS as a route to Universal Health Care -Jean Drèze
-The Hindu ‘Healthcare as an optional public service’ would ensure the legal right to receive free, quality care in a public institution The lingering COVID-19 crisis is a good time to revive an issue that is, oddly, slow to come to life in India — Universal Health Care (UHC). Meanwhile, UHC has become a well-accepted objective of public policy around the world. It has even been largely realised in many countries, not...
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