Testing – Rajalakshmi School of Business

COVID-19

COVID-19 TESTING IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES – PART III

September 30, 2020 Dr. Badri Toppur, Associate Professor, RSB

The word Timocracy appeared in a cryptic crossword last week. I google it to find out that the Greek philosopher Plato had described various forms of state and governance, including this one. If I have understood ancient Greek correctly, in […]

COVID-19

COVID-19 TESTING IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES – PART II

August 27, 2020 Dr. Badri Toppur, Associate Professor, RSB

I compared the emphasis on testing between various countries, over the seven month period from December 31st 2019 to July 30th 2020. Many countries did not report cases in the early months, but the mean comparison over the extended period […]

COVID-19

COVID-19 TESTING IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES

August 13, 2020 Dr. Badri Toppur, Associate Professor, RSB

In my last blog, I looked at the stringency index of 30 countries. This is an index devised by the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and is an aggregate of 9 measures of government enforcement on […]