Dealing with Covid 19: A Comparative Study of the Brazilian and the Indian Experience

Abstract

Covid 19 pandemic has put all the states into a critical managerial ordeal. The federations have also faced internal challenges over responding to the virus. The federal inconveniences due to incoordination and inefficiencies influenced the responses of states. While the US and Brazilian states, even after having better ICUs average per 100000 persons, evoked world attention on account of their failure to meet the hazard, the Indian and Canadian federations performed comparatively better. The paper examines through historical-institutional and comparative statistical methods how the Brazilian and Indian federal governments responded to the virus and how the factors like leadership efficiency, ethnicity and the issue of economic growth influenced their performances. The study concludes that in times of such grievous situations, leaderships have to play a crucial role and the federal hindrances have to be overrun by fresh legislations and ordinances in the interest of public health, and India has fared better than Brazil in meeting the pandemic.