02207cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022180 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781616354695 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Deb, Pragyan. State-Level Health and Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India / Pragyan Deb, TengTeng Xu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (40 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on India have been substantial, with wide variation across states and union territories. This paper quantifies the impact of containment measures and voluntary social distancing on both the spread of the virus and the economy at the state level during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a de-facto measure of state-level social distancing, combining containment strigency and observed mobility trends. State-level empirical analysis suggests that social distancing and containment measures effectively reduced case numbers, but came with high economic costs. State characteristics, such as health care infrastructure and the share of services in the economy, played an important role in shaping the health and economic outcomes, highlighting the importance of adequate social spending, health care infrastructure, and social safety nets. Mode of access: Internet Containment Measures imf COVID-19 imf Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models imf Social Distancing imf Studies of Particular Policy Episodes imf Xu, TengTeng. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/279 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/279/001.2021.issue-279-en.xml IMF e-Library