Reimagining Prosperity: Social and Economic Development in Post-COVID India

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This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India. The chapters in this volume provide theoretical perspectives and empirical insights from a range of disciplines including history, economics, water management, food and nutrition security, agriculture, rural management, public health, urbanization, gender studies and development of the marginalized. It discusses the pressing questions that have been raised by the disruption caused by the pandemic and proposes insights and interventions to build a more just, sustainable and united post-COVID India.

About the author

Arash Fazli is Assistant Professor and Head of the Bahá’í Chair for Studies in Development at Devi Ahilya University, Indore. Prior to this, he worked as a Principal Researcher with the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity and as a journalist with The Hindu and The Times of India.

Amitabh Kundu is Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He was Professor and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University and a member of the National Statistical Commission. He chaired the Post Sachar Evaluation Committee and that for estimating Urban Housing Shortage. He was Regional Adviser on Poverty at UNESCWA, Beirut and Consultant to Sri Lankan Government on Population Census.


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