Covid-19: ‘If virus won’t kill me, hunger will’

India’s formal economy — the part that can be measured through tax receipts — was just starting to show some signs of bottoming out after a poorly conceived ban on high-value currency, new sales tax and shadow banking crisis had hobbled growth in recent years. Then the virus came, prompting an unprecedented 21-day lockdown of 1.3 billion people to prevent its spread.

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