DECODE

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted market and supply chains and disoriented the world’s workforce. Despite its universal impact, existing data has revealed that the pandemic’s undercurrents have ,and will, disproportionately affect women’s economic and productive lives. This fraction of the gender binary has less savings and job security, commands lower income- with the global gender … Continue reading Summary: Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on Women

Economic growth occurs when resources are more efficiently utilised so as to increase the productive capacity of a country. A simple metaphor for this can be found in one’s own vegetable-garden wherein the supply of raw materials is finite and limits the amount of produce. The growth of a particular plant will hinge on its … Continue reading Economic Growth: Why do some countries grow more rapidly than others?

My perception of the environment and sustainability in terms of economics was always limited to the thought that it is a component of one of the numerous negative externalities that are involved in our everyday choices. Fortunately, this lockdown I explored reading outside the course and picked up areas of economics that were briefly outlined … Continue reading Sustainable Economics: A modern educational necessity

Co-Author: Samar Kumar Living in a world riddled with uncertainties and unforeseen circumstances attributable to the pandemic, the application of models based on certainty, which try to foresee such circumstances, sounds a bit ironic right? Despite this perceived irony, we seek refuge in scientific models that help us quantify this uncertainty with great effectiveness and … Continue reading Can the data from the current pandemic be used to formulate scientific models of safe healthcare practices for the future?

As college applications come to a close for the year 2020, universities gear themselves for an influx of international applicants and for a rigorous session of putting these students under a microscope and hand picking them like needles in a haystack. For years, the USA has held a monopoly in terms of international students, with … Continue reading International Students fuel the US Economy