COVID-19: RECESSION, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY AND REDISTRIBUTION
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https://doi.org/10.31674/ijrtbt.2021.v05i01.003Abstract
In this paper, author attempted to show the recessionary impact of COVID-19 including a fall of HDI, increase in unemployment, burden of diseases, fiscal deficit with high debt burden. Increase in poverty and inequality were other effects of COVID-19 which were exclusively shown by author. Redistribution of income from the studies of eminent economists were incorporated by author with great care.
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Covid-19, Recession, Poverty, InequalityDownloads
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