New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): With the weather oscillating between hot and rainy, hospitals in the national capital are reporting a rise in cases of viral illnesses and Swine Flu Influenza and the cases they say are more this year compared to last year.
In the aftermath of past pandemics, fiscal policy played an important role in reducing or amplifying income inequality. This column predicts the likely distributional effects of Covid-19 by analysing evidence from five previous outbreaks (SARS, H1N1, MERS, Ebola, and Zika). It finds that severe austerity measures were associated with inequality increases three times greater