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Covid 19: Lives vs Lives

In India, the trade-off the government is facing is not lives vs the economy when it comes to fighting Covid-19, but lives vs lives. The aim is not to lose more people to the containment measures than the virus would claim without them. Lore Vandewalle (IHEID) is a coauthor of CEPR Policy Insight 102, India's Lockdown