Crisis and Predation: India, Covid-19, and Global Finance

by The Research Unit for Political Economy

Book Overview

How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disaster

With the advent of COVID-19, India's rulers imposed the world's most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy, dealing a body blow to the majority of India's billion-plus population. Yet the Indian government's spending to cushion the lockdown's economic impact ranked among the world's lowest in GDP terms, resulting in unprecedented unemployment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583679243
• ISBN13: 9781583679241
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"