The document discusses the circular flow of income in a five sector economy and how it is impacted by leakages and injections. In the circular flow, consumers provide factors of production to producers and receive factor payments, while producers provide goods and services to consumers. Producers and consumers pay taxes to the government sector. Consumers save and the financial sector invests savings into producers. During COVID-19, leakages increased as incomes fell from job/business losses, while government injections aimed to support those in need through subsidies.
The document discusses the circular flow of income in a five sector economy and how it is impacted by leakages and injections. In the circular flow, consumers provide factors of production to producers and receive factor payments, while producers provide goods and services to consumers. Producers and consumers pay taxes to the government sector. Consumers save and the financial sector invests savings into producers. During COVID-19, leakages increased as incomes fell from job/business losses, while government injections aimed to support those in need through subsidies.
The document discusses the circular flow of income in a five sector economy and how it is impacted by leakages and injections. In the circular flow, consumers provide factors of production to producers and receive factor payments, while producers provide goods and services to consumers. Producers and consumers pay taxes to the government sector. Consumers save and the financial sector invests savings into producers. During COVID-19, leakages increased as incomes fell from job/business losses, while government injections aimed to support those in need through subsidies.
Five sector economy consists of- consumers, producers, govt. sector, financial sector and overseas sector. In this sector consumer provides factor of production – land, labor, capital and entrepreneurship to the producers and in exchange producers provide factor services- rent, wages and salaries, profit and interest. Producers provides goods and services to consumers and in return consumers spend their savings on business firms. Producers and Consumers pay taxes to government sector in the form of service tax, GST and government provides loans, subsidies and allowances to producers. Consumers deposit their savings to financial sector and financial sector invest in producers / their firms. Consumers pays overseas sector in the form of import payment and producers pay overseas sector in the form of export income WHAT REALLY IS COVID-19?
Coronavirus disease is an infectious disease caused by the
SARS CoV-2 virus. People who fall sick with COVID- 19 will experience mild to moderate symptoms and some recover without special treatment however some will become seriously ill and require medical attention. EFFECT OF COVID-19 ON INDIAN ECONOMY • The negative impact of covid-19 come through variety of channels ,it includes loss of employment ,loss of sales and income of household business, inability to travel and maintain a distance from offline classes hence maintaining social distance. • Almost all the sectors of the economy has suffered and adversely affected ,but the sectors that have been most suffered are construction, manufacturing, education. • People were not getting salaries, no circulation in the market, no investments were made by common man, some people moved back to their hometown as they were unemployed and had really bad financial condition. WHAT IS LEAKAGE & INJECTION? Circular flow of income or KEYNESIAN MODEL OF FLOW OF THE INCOME means flow of income in a circular form. Each sector performs in a particular pattern or in a LOOP in which you can neither save nor invest anything else and leakage and injection acts as a loop hole in this circular flow of income. As the name suggests, Leakage means that some components like- savings, taxes and imports are leaked out of the circular flow. Injections means that components are being injected in the circular flow like- investments. CURRENT SCENARIO OF INDIA IN LEAKAGE AND INJECTION CURRENT SCENARIO OF INDIA • The covid -19 pandemic is a global crisis that has hit the world on multiple fronts. • As for current scenario , there has been a sharp contraction in economic activities of India and it is facing some economic crisis however doing its best to improve the situation and is expecting to do well in the future. • The covid -19 pandemic has changed the economic sentiments and functioning in india which is expected to have some long-tern effects. SCENARIO OF LEAKAGES & INJECTIONS DURING COVID During covid, so many leakages took place as the economy level went down, people lost their jobs, business were shut down and if some people were getting their salaries then it was almost half of what they used to get. People were using their savings to meet their daily life expenses Due to covid there is an slowdown of imports from other countries, so it will be difficult to fill the gap either by increasing up the domestic production or via imports from other countries. As far as, injections i.e investments is concerned, govt. provided specific amount of money in the form of susidies to the people that lies below poverty line. MEASURES TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT • As the disease was spreading very rapidly government started testing ,tracing and placing the infected individual in quarantine. • Government also imposed restrictions such as weekend curfew, night curfew ,closure of markets, no use of public transport. • There was complete lockdown all over the world and people are advised to maintain social distance. • Government has ensured the availability of medical equipments and increased the number of hospitals, beds, doctors ,nurses, medicines etc • Government has also introduced new schemes for people and has provided basic necessities to them. • Vaccines has also been made available to people by the government.