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The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: a viewpoint on India
(World Development, 2020-07-15)
In this article, we present our viewpoint on COVID-19 pandemic and one of the humanitarian challenges it will likely pose: food insecurity. We begin our article by presenting the status of hunger and food insecurity around ...
Responses to COVID-19: the role of governance, healthcare infrastructure, and learning from past pandemics
(Journal of Business Research, 2020-09-10)
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has revealed vulnerabilities in global healthcare responses. Research in epidemiology has focused on understanding the effects of countries’ responses on COVID-19 spread. While a growing body ...
Lights out? COVID-19 containment policies and economic activity.
(Elsevier Inc., 2023-02-06)
This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted aggregate economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate how containment zones of different severity across India ...
Global tourism and COVID-19: An impact assessment
(Institute for Tourism, 2021)
The world is facing an unprecedented situation with COVID-19. The normal functioning of economies has been completely interrupted with the lockdowns in place. The consequences of pandemic have been deeply felt across the ...
Telemedicine Adoption in India: Identifying Factors Affecting Intention to Use
(IGI GLOBAL, 2021)
COVID-19 pandemic mandates the transformation of the traditional healthcare delivery model from facility-based to virtual care worldwide. The use of technology in delivering healthcare has always been debated and faces ...
Evidence of Coronavirus (CoV) Pathogenesis and Emerging Pathogen SARS-CoV-2 in the Nervous System: A Review on Neurological Impairments and Manifestations
(Humana Press Inc., 2021)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an issue of global significance that has taken the lives of many across the world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the virus responsible ...
Mutual fund asset allocation during COVID-19: evidence from an emerging market.
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-02-09)
The paper examines the investment decisions of Indian equity mutual funds during various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic with monthly portfolio holdings. We find that funds favoured firms with lower risk, higher financial ...
Moving towards "mobile warehouse": Last-mile logistics during COVID-19 and beyond
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021)
Supply chains in general and last-mile logistics in particular, have been disrupted due to COVID-19. Though several innovative last-mile logistics solutions have been proposed in the past, they possess certain limitations, ...
Infection Testing at Scale: An Examination of Pooled Testing Diagnostics
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2021)
In pandemics or epidemics, public health authorities need to rapidly test a large number of individuals without adequate testing kits. We propose a testing protocol to accelerate infection diagnostics by combining multiple ...
Application of pooled testing in estimating the prevalence of COVID-19
(Springer, 2021)
Testing at a mass scale has been widely accepted as an effective way to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. In the initial stages, the shortage of test kits severely restricted mass-scale testing. Pooled testing ...