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Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India
A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation. However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338145/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01065-4 |
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description | A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation. However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimulus package. In this paper, we discuss the implications of lockdown-induced school and rural child-care center closures on education and health outcomes for the urban and rural poor. We especially focus on food and nutritional security of children who depend on school feeding and supplementary nutrition programs. We argue that the impacts are likely to be much more severe for girls as well as for children from already disadvantaged ethnic and caste groups. We also discuss ways in which existing social security programs can be leveraged and strengthened to ameliorate these impacts. |
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spelling | pubmed-73381452020-07-07 Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India Alvi, Muzna Gupta, Manavi Food Secur Opinion Piece A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation. However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, including in India’s central government’s 250 billion dollar stimulus package. In this paper, we discuss the implications of lockdown-induced school and rural child-care center closures on education and health outcomes for the urban and rural poor. We especially focus on food and nutritional security of children who depend on school feeding and supplementary nutrition programs. We argue that the impacts are likely to be much more severe for girls as well as for children from already disadvantaged ethnic and caste groups. We also discuss ways in which existing social security programs can be leveraged and strengthened to ameliorate these impacts. Springer Netherlands 2020-07-07 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7338145/ /pubmed/32837637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01065-4 Text en © International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Opinion Piece Alvi, Muzna Gupta, Manavi Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title | Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title_full | Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title_fullStr | Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title_full_unstemmed | Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title_short | Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India |
title_sort | learning in times of lockdown: how covid-19 is affecting education and food security in india |
topic | Opinion Piece |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7338145/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01065-4 |
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