The 17th India Policy Forum 2020 Volume comprises papers and highlights of the discussions at the India Policy Forum (IPF) held virtually on July 13–16, 2020, the year of the Coronavirus pandemic. The IPF included the 2nd T. N. Srinivasan Memorial Lecture for 2020, “Data in Coronavirus Times,” delivered virtually on July 13 by Professor Pronab Sen, Director of IGC India and former Chief Statistician of India. The 2020 IPF also featured two roundtables focused on the pandemic: “What Do the Pandemic and India’s Economic Shutdowns Teach Us about Meeting India’s Safety Net Challenges?” and “What Do the Pandemic and India’s Economic Shutdowns Teach Us about Meeting India’s Economic Growth and Jobs Challenges?”

2020, Volume 17, Papers

• Whither India’s Economy Post-COVID-19?  by Prachi Mishra

• Indian Health Policy in Light of COVID-19: The Puzzle of State Capacity and Institutional Design
  by Ajay Shah

• Inflation Targeting in India: An Interim Assessment
  by Barry Eichengreen, Poonam Gupta, and Rishabh Choudhary

• Structural Change and Economic Growth: Patterns and Heterogeneity among Indian States and Implications for a Post-COVID Recovery
  by Anirban Sanyal and Nirvikar Singh

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