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To address hunger, the Government of Delhi had issued temporary ration e-coupons in the first COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020. This article uses a data set of nearly 17 lakh households that applied for e-coupons to measure and spatialise food insecurity in the city. It does so to measure unmet demand for social protection as well as to draw learnings for the design of urban social
What 2020 did to India’s inequality Until now, the burden of this once-in-a-century crisis has been borne unequally, and mostly by the poor. (Photo: Reuters)Premium Rahul Lahoti, Amit Basole The bottom 10% of Indians lost a fourth of their income last year. Can the Budget put a lid on widening inequality? In the shadow of an upcoming Union Budget, these facts acquire more resonance. The govt should consider a covid cess on the rich in order to partly fund direct support to the poor. Share Via Read Full Story BENGALURU : Even before covid-19, India was already a highly unequal country. As p...