India announced a fiscal package worth `1.7 trillion to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, but there were arguments for more spending. Using data from a cross-section of countries, this paper estimates the relationship between fiscal spending and the spread of COVID-19, economic stringency, and macroeconomic factors. It argues that subsidy rationalisation is the way to fund the
Since 2019, patients in the UK have been able to book GP appointments through the myGP app, which now has more than two million users. The company behind myGP, iPlato Healthcare, entered America’s much larger healthcare market seven years ago, but its US operations have struggled to grow, and account for less than 2 per cent of its overall revenue. The reason for this is that