Towards Equality and Empowerment:
Reflections amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(October – December 2020)

Volume 1, Issue 4 of the Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR) is titled Towards Equality and Empowerment: Reflections amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. The issue 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 and diverse challenges for policymakers and citizens across the globe.

Journal of Development Policy Review (JDPR):
Volume 1, Issue 4 (October-December 2020)
Towards Equality and Empowerment:
Reflections amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Insights

• Leaving the Shadow of Pain: Personal Reflections on Epistemology
  Doris H. Gray
• Labour Migration in South Asia: Shared Features and Common Solutions
  Babu P. Remesh

Policy Perspectives

• Forest Dependence and its Degradation in Meghalaya: The Potential Reasons
  Utpal K. De
• Trade and Policy Shocks in Nepal amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Observations, Lessons and the Way Forward
  Raghu Bir Bista

Special Articles

• Malnutrition and Inequality among the Vulnerable Social Groups: A Study of Two Villages
  Gummadi Sridevi, Amalendu Jyotishi, and Dontha Prashanth
• 24 to 48 hour Composting Machines: Do They Really Produce Compost as the Final Output and Their Viability for Community Composting in Indian Cities
  Monika Khanna Gulati, Shyamala K. Mani

Young Voices

• The Power of Knowledge for Action: How Young People are Building Local Climate Resilience
  Nikita Rakhyani

Report Review

• Inequality Report 2021: India’s Unequal Healthcare Story, Oxfam India
  Vibhuti Patel