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Category: Policy Review

What the Tuberculosis Foreign Aid Trajectory Tells Us about COVID-19: An Analysis

In the wake of COVID-19, our global public discourse and policy execution measures have frantically adopted “unprecedented” into routine vocabulary. As the virus rapidly pushes globally interdependent socio-economic systems into isolation, the notion of “public” in public health is simultaneously evolving. While our pandemic-centric histories do not deliver frameworks of certainty, they leave us with… Continue reading What the Tuberculosis Foreign Aid Trajectory Tells Us about COVID-19: An Analysis

COVID-19: Implications for Indian Foreign Policy and International Relations

COVID-19 – A Reckoning: Rethinking Surveillance in Times of Crisis

The crisis of COVID-19 has led to a global surge in surveillance activities. The World Health Organization, in its guideline for “Global Surveillance for human infection with coronavirus disease (COVID-19)” rolled out implementable steps for nations to track and trace coronavirus infections.1 In order to figure out mechanisms for contact tracing and to prevent the infections… Continue reading COVID-19 – A Reckoning: Rethinking Surveillance in Times of Crisis

State of Public Finance in India during COVID-19

The novel coronavirus pandemic has cast a long shadow of financial uncertainty for both the Centre and states. The impact of the pandemic on the economy and the lives of the economically and socially disadvantaged requires a sizeable government funding exercise to try and limit the ripple effects of the pandemic. Livelihoods need to be… Continue reading State of Public Finance in India during COVID-19

COVID-19, Urbanisation and the Role of the Draft NUP for India’s Way Forward

The Union government proposed India’s first National Urban Policy (NUP) framework in March 2018. The rationale behind the draft NUP was to frame a comprehensive national policy for India’s plans to facilitate sustainable and inclusive urbanisation. As COVID-19 tightens its grip on Indian cities and reveals fault lines in the structures of governance, the details… Continue reading COVID-19, Urbanisation and the Role of the Draft NUP for India’s Way Forward

Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context

Introduction “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down or our heads from a blue sky.” – Albert Camus (The Plague, 1948) The world today is grappling with global COVID-19 public health emergency and its social, economic and… Continue reading Regulations and COVID-19 Response: Concerns in the Indian context

India and Covid-19: Economic Challenges, Impact and Policy

The Socratic Paradox has presented itself to the world once again. If there is one thing we know for certain about COVID-19 at this point in time, it is that we don’t know anything for certain. This uncertainty around the absolute knowledge is necessary to establish upfront since it ideally opens us up to the fact that… Continue reading India and Covid-19: Economic Challenges, Impact and Policy

COVID 19 and War Terminology of World Leaders

In speeches, dialogues, conversations and TV commentaries, the usage of war metaphors to describe anything related to the COVID-19 pandemic are being deployed. These include “war cabinet” and, implicitly, “threat.”[i],[ii]This assists in projecting a perception of the extraordinary circumstances that are facing our reality today. Hundreds of millions cannot get out of their homes in… Continue reading COVID 19 and War Terminology of World Leaders

Tackling COVID-19: The Need for Effective Capacity Utilisation of Health Professionals

In India, the labor market in the healthcare sector runs in acute supply shortage. The doctor-patient ratio is 1:1248 and there are only 1.5 nurses available per thousand patients. Public health capacity is inadequate and mostly asymmetrically distributed across states. While there are 38.3 government hospitals for a million people in Kerala, there are only… Continue reading Tackling COVID-19: The Need for Effective Capacity Utilisation of Health Professionals

Chief of Defence Staff: Need of the hour for the forces and the Industry

The establishment of the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), a four-star general, in India’s military apparatus is poised to bring in much required internal reforms i.e. corroborating the tri-services to eventually operate as theatre commands where the Army, Navy and Air Force would operate under a single 3-star general. The corollary effect of this establishment… Continue reading Chief of Defence Staff: Need of the hour for the forces and the Industry