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Q7 · UPPSC PCS Mains 2021 · Essay · 50 marks · ~700 words in the hall · 1 min read

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Global economy under COVID-19.

Topic: National and international events. Syllabus: Section C — National and International Events; Natural Calamities; National Development programmes and projects. Same official PYQ from year-wise 2021 and National and international events.

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Essay map

Opening scene

Anecdote

Ships waited, a migrant walked, a screen-class kept a salary. The global economy under COVID was not one story. It was a split. The topic wants that split named, then a public health as economic policy. A locked factory is a global fact. Stimulus that skips a ward is a recovery that will walk home again.

Keep this in every paragraph

One stand

IMF/WTO one nod. Stimulus, a inflation later, a China-plus-one. Do not dump quarters.

Turn each heading into a full paragraph in the hall

Heading map

What the line is asking

  • Global: trade, a capital, a labour that could not fly.
  • Under COVID: a named shock.

Shock / repair

  • Services vs a app. Debt of the South.
  • Diversify a chain; a TRIPS waiver debate as one line.

The counter

‘Opportunity’ as a stock-market toast while informal India ate a savings.

Health first

  • Supply chain, a crude, a tourism, a remittance — the map of shock.
  • India: a migrant, a MSME, a vaccine as diplomacy and as a desk.
  • Way: public health as the first stimulus, a portable ration, a credit that reaches.
  • Do not call a K-shaped recovery a festival.

Drop one peg where it fits — not a data dump

Value addition

  • WHO / IMF Health and a macro file.
  • Supply chain / WTO Global as a stuck container.
  • MGNREGA / migrant India’s split.
  • Vaccine / COVAX A global public good fight.
  • Art. 21 Economy that still has a body.

Last 8–10 lines in the exam

Last paragraph

The global economy under COVID-19 was a locked shift, a broken chain, a crude that swung, a worker who walked. Recovery that begins with a ward is a stimulus; recovery that begins with a speech is a second wound. Health is the first stimulus: a vaccine desk, an oxygen lesson, a data that warns. Then a portable ration, a small firm’s credit, a trade that does not preach while a shed is empty. Close on health first. That is how a global file becomes a local street that can still open.

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