Maheshwari: Restoring supply will be the bottleneck even if demand rebounds
Mekin Maheshwari · Mekin Maheshwari on Impact of COVID-19 on Small & Medium Enterprises and Startups · Apr 26, 2020 · at 16:05
Mekin Maheshwari analyzes the dual supply-and-demand shock facing Indian MSMEs during the April 2020 COVID-19 lockdown.
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“So even if demand were to come back very sharply after the lockdown, creating supply back is going to be a challenge and The measures that government can take to ease those to enable people to enable transport to work very well, raw material to be available, but also financing for that working capital of raw material to be available easily for entrepreneurs at this stage would be very important.”
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