Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/264360 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/51
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper presents a critical analysis of official data related to COVID-19 in Bihar state, India, which points to the manipulation of data for political ends. The ruling party's claim that the state managed the COVID pandemic brilliantly seems more politically motivated than scientific. We show that during both the first and the second waves of COVID-19 in Bihar, the state government failed to provide relief to its people and left many of them, particularly the poor, without food, health care, or transport for weeks and months while it successfully negotiated its own re-election.
Subjects: 
manipulation of data
COVID pandemic
Bihar
health
COVID-19
JEL: 
I18
H75
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-182-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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