Covid-19 Pandemic and Its Multidimensional Impact: The Road Ahead

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Overnight the entire world entered into a chaotic situation with lots of unknowns. Such unprecedented random shock in the form of pandemic have not only changed the health related activities but also revamped the behavioural activities of several economic agents. Such behavioural distortions following health crisis has a multidimensional focus. In fact, the pandemic crisis has affected both economic and non-economic activities locally as well as globally. Extensive researches have been going on concerning various economic and non-economic issues associated with the pandemic crisis. The present book aims to contribute in this literature by investigating thoroughly the multidimensional aspects of the present pandemic crisis across countries and groups of the world with the help of new theories and using latest data. The book includes a wide range of research articles, studying the pandemic with scientific background as well as analysing the impact of the crisis on the socio-economic activities across the countries. The chapters also cover impact analyses focusing education sector and labour market in India, which have a significant relevance in the context of present pandemic crisis. Overall, the book has attempted to find out the answer to the most pertinent question at this present moment of crisis, that is, whether a better future is gettable in the short-run or we have to wait for long-run with optimize trajectory.