CRISES IN INDIA OF COVID-19
Report
Analyzing the impact of agile mindset adoption on software development teams productivity during COVID-19
Chaitanya Arun Sathe
Chetan Panse
Journal of Advances in Management Research,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol.20 N0.1October.2020 Pune
Purpose-The objective of the study is to analyze the impact of the adoption of the Agile Mindset on the productivity of Agile software development teams in IT enterprises during COVID-19. Design/methodology/approach – A web-based survey is performed with voluntary participants working with the Agile software development professionals with a specific focus on IT enterprises around Pune, India. For this the initial exploratory literature review was performed, to explore the team’s behaviors and their response to the crises like the Covid-19 pandemic. Data is collected from the targeted population using the random sampling method. A questionnaire is designed with the help of a five-point Likert scale. All the respondents were analyzed based on their behaviors shown and how adopting to Agile mindset has impacted their productivity during the pandemic. Collected data would be then analyzed using the Smart PLS-SEM methodology. Findings – Findings of the study show that Agile software development teams adopting to Agile mindset are better at responding to crisis and quick to adapt to change as teams adopting the Agile mindset is likely to sustain or even improve their productivity during the crises like Covid-19 pandemic. Adapting to an Agile mindset is important for Agile software development teams during a crisis as a response to changes in the working as well as environmental conditions. This study also shows that by adopting an Agile mindset, development teams are better at responding to the crisis eventually improving productivity. Research limitations/implications – Research limitations for this study-scope of the study could be extended to the larger population across geographies to have improved insights Productivity Factors like- Efforts Efficiency, Backlog-management Index (BMI), and Weighted Average Productivity (VWP) for team members can be included.
Reference: Chaitanya Arun Sathe, Chetan Panse (2022).Crises in India of covid 19.
Volume 20.No.1October 2020,Pune
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Implications Of Covid-19 On Textiles Industry In India – Discovering Issues And Challenges On Demand And Supply Sides
ARAVAMUDHAN Varadaraj
SAI MOHANRAJ Prasanna
SENGODAN Ananth
Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies (EEJRS),
Center for Studies in European Integration (CSEI),
Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM), Vol.8 No.2, December,2019
The unexpected COVID-19 outbreak has threatened the world and derailed the socio-economic lives of people. In this context, this study is aimed to discuss the implications of COVID-19 in textiles sector in India along with major issues and challenges on demand and supply sides. This study determines the impact of crisis which affected demand and supply in textiles and fashion industry. COVID-19 has several implications for this industry, be it from demand or production. Its presence is observed in different aspects of the industry. This study uses secondary data collected from various sources like studies published in peer-reviewed journals. This study focuses on the need to think differently to deal with this unexpected crisis. Relaxation of tax compliance rules and deadlines, especially for small-scale segments is one of the potential solutions, so that the conditions of customer demand are not affected directly. In addition, more comprehensive financial relief package could be announced for textiles sector, considering the export- and labor-intensive processes to stem the adverse effects of pandemic. Rebates on exporters could be the next major step against the remission of taxes or duties on exports. This study was conducted during the COVID-19 crisis. More studies would be needed in post COVID era to generalize the findings. The combative measures and actual impact may be evolutionary and dynamic.There is a lack of significant research on the impact of COVID-19 on textile industry in India.
Reference: ARAVAMUDHAN Varadaraj,SAI MOHANRAJ Prasanna,SENGODAN Ananth Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies (2019)Center for Studies in European Integration, Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova Vol.8 No.2, December,2019
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And Still She Rises: Policies for Improving Women’s Health for a More Equitable Post-Pandemic World
Farah M. Shroff
Ricky Tsang
Kranti Vora
IJERPH Vol 20, No.6 March 2023, Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar India
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned crises of violence, hunger and impoverishment. Maternal and Infant Health Canada (MIHCan) conducted this policy action study to explore how changes that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic may catalyze potential improvements in global women’s health toward the creation of a more equitable post-pandemic world. In this mixed methods study, 280 experts in women’s health responded to our survey and 65 subsequently participated in focus groups, including professionals from India, Egypt/Sudan, Canada and the United States/Mexico. From the results of this study, our recommendations include augmenting mental health through more open dialogue, valuing and compensating those working on the frontlines through living wages, paid sick leave and enhanced benefits and expanding digital technology that facilitates flexible work locations, thereby freeing time for improving the wellbeing of caregivers and families and offering telemedicine and telecounseling, which delivers greater access to care. We also recommend bridging the digital divide through the widespread provision of reliable and affordable internet services and digital literacy training. These policy recommendations for employers, governments and health authorities aim to improve mental and physical wellbeing and working conditions, while leveraging the potential of digital technology for healthcare provision for those who identify as women, knowing that others will benefit. MIHCan took action on the recommendation to improve mental health through open conversation by facilitating campaigns in all study regions. Despite the devastation of the pandemic on global women’s health, implementing these changes could yield improvements for years to come.
Reference: Farah M. Shroff Ricky Tsang Kranti Vora. IJERPH Vol 20, No.6 March 2023,Canada & India
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Women’s well-being during a pandemic and its containment
Bau, Natalie
Khanna, Gaurav
Low, Corinne
Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier,
Vol. 156 N0.4 ,March2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the dual crises of disease and the containment policies designed to mitigate it. Yet, there is little evidence on the impacts of these policies on women in lower-income countries, where there may be limited social safety nets to absorb these shocks. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India’s geographically varied containment policies to estimate the association between the pandemic and containment policies and measures of women’s well-being, including mental health and food security. On aggregate, the pandemic resulted in dramatic income losses, increases in food insecurity, and declines in female mental health. While potentially crucial to stem the spread of COVID-19, the greater prevalence of containment policies is associated with increased food insecurity, particularly for women, and reduced female mental health. For surveyed women, moving from zero to average containment levels is associated with a 38% increase in the likelihood of reporting more depression, a 73% increase in reporting more exhaustion, and a 44% increase in reporting more anxiety. Women whose social position may make them more vulnerable – those with daughters and those living in female-headed households – experience even larger declines in mental health.
Reference:
Bau, Natalie, Khanna, Gaurav, Low, Corinne (2022). Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, Vol.156 No.4 March ,2022
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Explaining expedited energy transition toward renewables by COVID-19 in India
Xu, Yuan
Sharma, Tarun
Energy Policy, Elsevier, Vol.165 No.5.March,2022
Energy transition toward renewables, mainly wind and solar, has gained momentum in the past decade. Although the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented, multi-faceted challenges and uncertainties, India witnessed an expedited energy transition in 2020. With our newly constructed Electric System Dispatch Model for India (ESDMI), this study aims to provide an explanation of the underlining mechanisms. The Janta Curfew (7am-9pm) in India was observed on March 22, 2020 followed by a 21-day complete lockdown starting March 25, 2020 to control the spread of the virus. Electricity demand in India dropped by nearly a quarter. We model the supply-side dynamics prior to and during the pandemic response as well as in a counterfactual scenario in the pandemic’s absence. We find that the expedited energy transition could be explained by (i) the higher priority of a large renewables fleet to access electric grid either through stipulations and the merit order effect, and (ii) coal-fired electricity generation is less flexible than natural gas and hydropower units. A substantial amount of coal-fired power plants in India are still far from reaching their designed lifetimes. Their low resilience in such crises could exacerbate the problem of stranded assets.
Reference: Xu, Yuan, Sharma, Tarun (2022) Energy Policy, Elsevier, Vol.165 No.5.March,2022
6. Report
Early warning system for risk of external liquidity shock in BRICS countries
An, Hui
Wang, Hao
Delpachitra, Sarath
Cottrell, Simon
Yu, Xiao
Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 54 No.6 January 2023
The early-warning system (EWS) is recognized in the literature as a method of detecting crises prior to events and to reduce false alarms of possible crises. This study constructs an EWS for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries to examine the risk of an external liquidity shock. The EWS index incorporates the sources, channels, and effects of shock in order to capture the key aspects of shock within the past 18 years.. The overall results highlight the importance of establishment of an EWS for countries such as Brazil, India, South Africa and other developing countries that have been struggling to cope up with the Covid 19 pandemic.
Reference: An, Hui, Wang, Hao, Delpachitra, Sarath,Cottrell, Simon,Yu, Xiao (2023).
Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 54 No.6 January,2023 Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
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Prioritizing Financial Crises Due to COVID-19: An Economic Safety and Sustainability Approach in India
Meghana Mishra
(Sports Authority of India, India)
Pravudatta Mishra
(CMA, India)
International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA),
IGI Global, vol. 10(1), No.10 August 2022 India
In order to reduce the community-transmission of the novel coronavirus, precautionary measures require major attention. Reducing coronavirus transmission in the Indian population has included utilization of protective masks, which ranked in the first level, followed by hand hygiene, self-observations, respiratory manners, social distancing, and environmental cleanliness and ventilation, respectively. But the Indian Government has taken a good initiative by ordering a lockdown to provide safety to its population and sustainability to the environment or nature. People in some sectors are doing work from home to still the rate of transmission, but the financial transactions also stop. In some sectors (product/service), it is also not possible to work from home, and in India, the infrastructure or facilities or science is not that developed. Hence, the Indian economy is suffering. In this paper, an effort is taken to find the financial crises in India due to Pandemic COVID-19 and prioritize it by Topsis method.
Reference: Meghana Mishra,Pravudatta Mishra (2022). International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA),IGI Global, vol. 10(1), No.10 August 2022 India
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Testing the impact of COVID-19 on trading behavior of the investors: An empirical evidence from Indian Stock Market
Bashir Ahmad Joo
Zahida Farooq
Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies,
Educational Research Multimedia & Publications,India, Vol.13 No.7,September 2022 Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Purpose: Globally, the galloping spread of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked a havoc in every sphere of the economy and left the human life out of gear. It has caused significant disruptions in the conduct of business activities and exposed the global economies to a jeopardy, resulting in a severe economic crises. India has suffered drastic consequences due to the outbreak of COVID-19 disease and the consequent lockdowns. A significant number of people lost their lives, which, in turn, had a negative impact on every aspect of the country’s macroeconomic system. Moreover, the contagion has also increased the volatility of the stock markets, which is believed to have a detrimental impact on the stock returns. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on the trading behavior of Indian investors. Methodology: In this context, the trading volume of Bombay stock exchange was taken as a proxy for trading behavior of the investors and used as a dependent variable.On the other hand, the daily COVID-19 caseload and COVID-19-related deaths were used as proxies for COVID-19 and considered as regressors. In this study, the multiple linear regression model was used to examine the relationship between the investors trading behavior and the impact of COVID-19. Findings.
Reference: Bashir Ahmad Joo, Zahida Farooq (2022). Indian Journal of Commerce and Management Studies, Educational Research Multimedia & Publications,India, vol. 13, No.7 September 2022
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Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the economic situation and food security of rural households in India
Veena Suresh
Ram Fishman
Johanna Sophie von Lieres
Bhavani R. Rao
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,Vol.12 No.9, January 2022
Purpose – The purpose of the study is to understand what impact the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 had on the income and food security of rural households in India and whether it differed across socioeconomic factors. Moreover, the study assesses the needs of rural households and determines whether they had received adequate support services during the lockdown. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted a repeated-measures quantitative survey design with 1,319 rural women from 16 states of India and conducted a telephonic survey. Findings – The lockdown had directly impacted rural households’ employment status and income but the impact differed depending on the type of employment. For example, working in a salaried job or on one’s farm led to a lower likelihood of a complete decline in income in states other than Kerala as the lockdown continued. The study also revealed a change in the pattern of food consumption, with higher consumption of subsidized staple foods. It also became evident that the aid announced by the government reached the rural population with some delay. Research limitations/implications – A limitation of the study was that many respondents refused to participate in phase 2, which reduced the sample size when comparing the two phases because the women did not own mobile phones. Instead, they were using their husbands’ phones. Originality/value – The study’s findings can help better understand the needs of rural populations during crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This can help to plan better and build preventive actions for such populations once their needs are understood. In addition, this can aid disadvantaged people for a minimal level of preparedness and security during such a crisis in the future.
Reference: Veena Suresh, Ram Fishman,Johanna Sophie von Lieres,Bhavani R. Rao(2022). Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies,
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 12 No.9, January 2022
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Evolving Disaster Response Practices during COVID-19 Pandemic
Gerald Potutan
Masaru Arakida
IJERPH, MDPI, Vol.18(6), No.10. March,2023
When a disaster occurs during a pandemic, it would be a case of concurrent crises As shown from the experiences of the Philippines, India, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, the conventional single-hazard approach needed to integrate new measures, including basic skills training on handling COVID-19 for disaster responders; additional stockpiles of face coverings, disinfectants, tents, and personal protective equipment (PPE); social distancing at evacuation centers; updating of standard operation procedures (SOPs) and guidelines for disaster response to adapt to the concurrent crises situations. Building on the reports presented by the member countries of Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), this paper highlights three evolving disaster response practices during the COVID-19 pandemic: (i) digitalization of some aspects of disaster response, including early warning, surveillance, and impact assessment; (ii) dispersed evacuation to enforce social distancing, including other measures such as testing, tracing, and isolating infected individuals; (iii) remote psychological first aid to disaster-impacted individuals who are already experiencing anxieties from the pandemic. Indicative outcomes of the evolving response practices are discussed.
Reference: Gerald Potutan,Masaru Arakida (2023). IJERPH, MDPI, Vol.18, No.10. March,2023