Best of BS Opinion: Govt's moves on farm marketing, Covid-19 fear, and more

From how extending the lockdown could lead to more deaths and why the World Bank and IMF must step up to protect the private sector and poor governments, to the issues that need to be resolved expeditiously to ensure smooth marketing of the anticipated bumper rabi harvest, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day.

It is important that the World Bank group’s lending be targeted specifically at those pressure points where it can make a specific difference, says the top edit. Click here to read...

The series of initiatives taken by the government to mitigate farmers’ marketing-related woes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic looks good on paper but are difficult to implement, says our second edit. Read on...

These gains from the lockdown are being achieved at enormous economic and human cost, writes Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor at ICRIER and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Click here to read...

In the first part of a series, Devesh Kapur & Arvind Subramanian argue the means must be found to avert potential economic and social collapse post-Covid. Read on...

To ramp up fiscal capacity and to maintain national fiscal credibility, establishing a fiscal council is of the first importance, writes Rathin Roy. Click here to read...

Enforcement apart, this is a good time to think about getting some structural reform underway, writes advocate Somasekhar Sundaresan. Read on...

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"This is the moment to see the poor"

Pope Francis on how the world should not overlook the misery of the poor during crises such as the cornonavirus pandemic