Abstract On March 24, 2020, the Government of India announced a 21-day national
lockdown that has since been extended to May 31, 2020. The lockdown left urban food …

We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states
of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID …

Without a vaccine, practicing social distancing and protective hygiene are the most effective
measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. In order to understand how the urban poor …

The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives and livelihoods, and, with that, has created
immediate challenges for institutions that serve affected communities. We focus on …

The Covid-19 pandemic required economic agents, in this case farmers, to make immediate
decisions with an eye on a future characterized by high level of uncertainty. Using a …

Abstract On March 24, 2020, the Prime Minister of India announced the world's largest
COVID-19 lockdown. We summarize the initial impacts of the lockdown for a representative …

Most studies on the novel COVID-19 pandemic have focused mainly on human health, food
systems, and employment with limited studies on how farmers implement sustainable …

This article traces income and employment changes through various phases of the
lockdown based on primary data. It analyses the coping strategies of people in response to …

This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that
employment and earnings were decimated by the lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 …

There is growing concern about the vulnerability of informal workers, who number more than
1.6 billion worldwide, to the adverse labor market impacts of the COVID-19 crisis (ILO …