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The Economic Costs of Not Vaccinating Everyone

Prosenjit Datta — Sat, 01 May 2021 04:00:42 +0000

This should be the question — not what is the cost of vaccinating At the time of writing this piece, heated arguments are taking place about the total cost of vaccination; who will pay; and how much they need to pay. The union government has made it clear that it will not bear the entire […]

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Bad Data and Policy Making

Prosenjit Datta — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 06:44:10 +0000

Policies are only as good as the statistics used for arriving at the decisions – and the Indian government has been found wanting in that respect. For a government that is extremely fond of repeating that Data is the New Oil, lack of proper, accurate and timely statistics is proving to be its Achilles heel […]

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Liquor is Quicker

Prosenjit Datta — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 10:14:38 +0000

Candy may be dandy but alcohol gives immediate revenues to state governments – and that is why they want liquor retailing to be allowed now When the national lockdown was announced, the union government left states to pretty much decide what they would include in the list of “essential goods”. It, however, made it clear […]

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Wasting a Lockdown

Prosenjit Datta — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:55:20 +0000

The first 21 days have been frittered away by the Union government. The remaining period should be utilised properly. Whether India should have imposed a national lockdown when relatively few cases of Coronavirus had been reported vis-a-vis other countries or should have waited is not a decision worth revisiting. Whether the lockdown will only shift […]

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Lockdown Diaries6: A Chain Broken

Prosenjit Datta — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 16:26:08 +0000

Every link in the logistics industry broke down. It will take a long time for normalcy to return. Even before Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his announcement at 8 pm on 24 March that a complete lockdown would be enforced from midnight, inter-state trucks had started piling up at different state borders. Many of these […]

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Lockdown Diaries1: Flotsam and Jetsam

Prosenjit Datta — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:15:46 +0000

The lockdown was announced without the slightest plan about what to do about the poor and the homeless and the migrant labour 26 March 2020: Two days into the lockdown – five days really given that most states had implemented the lockdown from 22 March itself – it has become completely clear that no planning […]

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