In last week's edition of Finanomics, I wrote about the need for the waiver of patents for vaccines as well as other covid-related innovations, as that could help end the covid-19 pandemic sooner. Since the last week's post...

“How much is it for?” On 19th April 2021, the Government of India put out a statement announcing that all individuals above the age of 18 will be eligible to get vaccinated from 1st May 2021. A move...

Vaccine Passports Something New The pandemic has enabled ideas and solutions that we would have never imagined in a world without Covid-19. Mandatory isolation, quarantine, lockdown, curfews or stay at home orders, tracking applications (like Arogya Setu), covid...

Inflation Targeting The inflation target set in August 2016 was set to end on 31st March 2021 as the 5 year period came to an end. The target of inflation through these 5 years was 4% inflation with...