Introduction
Successfully treating severe cases of COVID-19 - whether by oxygenation, the administration of steroids, or the use of ventilators - often requires a patient to be hospitalised. Since the number of beds present in a healthcare system constrains the number of patients hospitals can trea...
Introduction:
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is useful not only for formulating...
Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is extremely useful not only for formulating sh...
Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF filled with information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. As can be imagined, such data is extremely useful not ...
About the Mumbai COVID-19 Data
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF filled with information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. As can be ...
The Times of India reviewed our study on urban mobility where we calculate average commute times and identify exact traffic chokepoints in Mumbai using Uber movement data.
Excerpts:
"A commute that should last 30 minutes in free-flowing traffic takes over an ho...
This Mint article uses our work to illustrate how night lights data can shed light on various aspects of the economy. Excerpts:
"The analysis by IDFC Institute (available as an interactive tool here) also reveals that cities clearly evolve along transportation corridors, which mos...
This Mint article quotes Junior Fellow Vaidehi Tandel's paper (with Shirish Patel, Sahil Gandhi, Abhay Pethe and Kabir Agarwal) on rent control. Excerpts:
"In a 2015 paper, Decline Of Rental Housing In India: The Case Of Mumbai, Vaidehi Tandel, Shirish Patel, Sahil Gandhi, Ab...
Former Resident Senior Fellow, Alexander Tabarrok, discusses Mumbai's housing crisis with CEO and Senior Fellow, Reuben Abraham, and Junior Fellow, Kshitij Batra. ...
Place, a Thomson Reuters Foundation Initiative quotes Vaidehi Tandel, Junior Fellow at IDFC Institute on affordable housing shortage and on rental vouchers.
"The voucher, which entails a direct transfer of cash to offset some or all of the rent, may be the most viable option," Tandel said.
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