Economics

Think of India

a) Provide links to two quality newspaper or magazine articles and describe how Indian government has carried out the vaccination program against the COVID-19 pandemic.

b) Layout and argue which of the four different social welfare functions (i.e., egalitarian, utilitarian, Rawlsian, or libertarian / market-based) your government may have had in mind when rolling out the vaccination program.

c) Draw the corresponding allocation (assuming that there are only two people living in your country) using a utility possibilities frontier diagram and argue why.

d) Where would the allocation based on the remaining three social welfare functions lie on the utility possibilities frontier diagram from 1.c)? Argue why