India’s Lockdown and the Great Exodus

« previous chapter | next chapter »

Iscriviti alla newsletter

DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4138
dc.contributor.author	Daripa Arup
dc.title	India’s Lockdown and the Great Exodus. Some Observations
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The pandemic-induced lockdown in India caused a great exodus of millions of seasonal workers from cities, an impact for which the government was completely unprepared. This essay considers the socio-economic setting of the exodus, the potential economic and epidemiological impact, policy suggestions, and evaluation of the policy (non)response of the Indian government. We consider the underlying political economy of policy distortion and suggest ways that might enable incentive compatible corrections.
dc.relation.ispartof	Innovation in Business, Economics & Finance
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-31
dc.dateAccepted	2020-06-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-06-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-443-1/indias-lockdown-and-the-great-exodus/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/022
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8574
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-442-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Incentive compatibility
dc.subject	Incentive compatibility
dc.subject	Informal economy
dc.subject	Informal economy
dc.subject	Internal migration
dc.subject	Internal migration
dc.subject	Lockdown
dc.subject	Lockdown
dc.subject	Political economy of policymaking
dc.subject	Political economy of policymaking
dc.subject	Public policy distortions
dc.subject	Public policy distortions

Chapter
open access peer reviewed

India’s Lockdown and the Great Exodus

Some Observations

Arup Daripa Birkbeck, University of London, UK

VIEW PDF DOWNLOAD PDF

abstract

The pandemic-induced lockdown in India caused a great exodus of millions of seasonal workers from cities, an impact for which the government was completely unprepared. This essay considers the socio-economic setting of the exodus, the potential economic and epidemiological impact, policy suggestions, and evaluation of the policy (non)response of the Indian government. We consider the underlying political economy of policy distortion and suggest ways that might enable incentive compatible corrections.

Published

July 31, 2020

Accepted

June 30, 2020

Submitted

June 3, 2020

Language

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-442-4

Keywords: Internal migration • Informal economy • Public policy distortions • Incentive compatibility • Political economy of policymaking • Lockdown

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/022

Copyright: © 2020 Arup Daripa. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

References to this chapter

How to cite