inequities and vaccine hesitancy. Richer state economies were closing the gap with other states in terms of mobility and levels of economic activity before the second wave.
With a larger share of the population vaccinated, they would likely see a faster recovery in the coming months as mobility levels rise.
This would mean the gap between richer states, largely in the west and the south, and the poorer ones, largely in the east and the north, is set to widen.
The regional gap has been growing over the past two decades, and will likely widen in this fiscal. Resource Crunch Projections made by the 15th Finance Commission, prior to the second wave show that richer state economies were likely to experience much faster growth in the next few