JDPR Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2
Special Issue on The COVID-19 Pandemic and India
(January-March/April-June 2020)
The Special Issue of the Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) focuses on the ‘COVID-19 Pandemic and India’. The whole journal is divided into the following sections: Insights, Policy Perspectives, Special Articles, Young Voices, and Report Review. Articles in these sections cover the COVID-19 pandemic that has already posed and continues to pose innumerable challenges for policymakers and citizens across the globe.









Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR):
Volume 1, Issues 1 and 2 (Jan-Mar/Apr-Jun 2020)
Special Issue on the COVID-19 Pandemic and India
Insights
- Trade in the Time of the COVID-19 Outbreak
Utpal Kumar De, Bibhas Saha | PDF - Future of Work: The Emerging Gig Economy
Balwant Singh Mehta, Arjun Kumar | PDF - The City Frontier: Lockdown and Local Governance
M. Ramachandran | PDF - Exodus of Migrant Workers: The Mobility Conundrum During COVID-19
P.C. Mohanan | PDF - Spreading the Social Safety Net: A Pressing Need During COVID-19
Rashmi Singh | PDF - Rural Futures, the State and Markets
Amrita Saha, Marco Carreras | PDF - Leadership During Pandemics: The Real Test
Almas Mazigo | PDF - Challenges of Livelihood and Employment for Rural Poor and Return Migrants in Uttar Pradesh
Manoj Kumar Singh | PDF
Policy Perspectives
- Maternal and Child Health Services amid COVID-19 and Lockdown Distresses
Simi Mehta, Shipra Maitra, Manish Priyadarshi | PDF - COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences on the Elderly and the Disabled
I.C. Awasthi, Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar | PDF
Special Articles
- Gendered Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Govind Kelkar, Balwant Singh Mehta, Simi Mehta, Srruthi Lekha Raaja Elango | PDF - Work and Livelihood Losses in the Urban Informal Sector
Balwant Singh Mehta, Arjun Kumar | PDF - New World Order and New India: The Uncertain Geopolitics
Partha Ray, Simi Mehta | PDF
Young Voices
- Housing and Habitat Planning: Ubiquitous Global Implementation
Ziming Li, Aditi Madan | PDF - COVID-19: Unexpected Shocks for Migrant Workers and Students
Mansi Awasthi | PDF - COVID-19 and Digital Inclusion
Soumya Bhowmick, Vani Kaushik | PDF - Reimagining Public Spaces: Adapting to a New Reality
Laura v. Puttkamer | PDF - Work Life of the Youth in the Times of COVID-19
Ritika Gupta, Anshula Mehta | PDF