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Amid Lock down , Relief Packages for Lives and Livelihood of People; COVID-19 Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh  Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com Undoubtedly, the enormous impact of deadly COVID-19 on the economy and humanity is believed to be bigger than the sum of all crises in the last century. The livelihood and way of livings of more than fifty hundred million people across the world have incredibly affected by it. Complete shout down in many countries across the world is sufficient enough to believe so. Globally more than five lakhs people have infected and around 26 thousand people have died so far in the last three months. Countries having the best of the best technologies, the highest level of scientific advancements and the global best health care infrastructure too are suffering hugely. The powerful invincibility of this virus has completely uprooted existing systems of econ...

Self-Curfew and Fight Against COVID-19. Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh  Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. ssvikrampratap@gmail.com The whole globe is witnessing the biggest scathing attack on humanity. In the last more than half a century, the world has not seen such an enormous, more intensified and disastrous attack of deadly and fearful virus called COVID-19. More than 150 nations have witnessed the untimed death of more than 10000 people so far in the last two months at a time when the advancement and supremacy of science and technology are the most pressing subject matters for nations to illustrate their dominance and power.  The complete choking of health care system of even the most advanced and nations having the global best health care facilities, including the US, China and almost whole Europe is the classical example of the mockery of scientific advancement and the invincibility of COV...

Gender Parity- Analysis of Gender Gap Report 2020. Shashank Vikram Pratap Singh Ph.D. Scholar Department of Commerce Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi The debate on equality and inequality is as old as human civilization. It has further deepened into the intellectual discourse with the advent of knowledge and technology-driven economy. In the intellectual climate and deeply rooted academic world, there are a plethora of diverse sets of opinions. Established thinkers and scholars like Smith, Piketty to Richard Wilkinson and many more, have intellectually argued for the advantages and disadvantages of having inequality and not having inequality in the society.  The term inequality is viewed with the prism of many constructs like income inequality, social inequality, inequality based on gender and many more. When the discrimination is practiced based on gender, it's unquestionable that it becomes highly disastrous for the overall advance progress o...