State-Level Health and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India

November 19, 2021

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Pragyan Deb, and TengTeng Xu. State-Level Health and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union territories. This paper quantifies the impact of containment measures and voluntary social distancing on both the spread of the virus and the economy at the state level during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a de-facto measure of state-level social distancing, combining containment strigency and observed mobility trends. State-level empirical analysis suggests that social distancing and containment measures effectively reduced case numbers, but came with high economic costs. State characteristics, such as health care infrastructure and the share of services in the economy, played an important role in shaping the health and economic outcomes, highlighting the importance of adequate social spending, health care infrastructure, and social safety nets.

Subject: COVID-19, Health, Health care, Infrastructure, National accounts, Population and demographics

Keywords: B. aggregate Results, Containment measure, Containment measures., Containment strigency, COVID-19, Health care, Health outcome, India, Infrastructure, Social distancing, State characteristic

Publication Details

Pages:

40
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2021/279
Stock No:

WPIEA2021279
ISBN:

9781616354695
ISSN:

1018-5941

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