Tag Search: “transport”
Road to empowerment: Rural roads programme and women's outcomes
Lack of spatial mobility is recognised as a critical constraint on women's socioeconomic participation. This article presents findings from a study examining the impact of India’s rural roads programm...
- Bharti Nandwani Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 27 November, 2024
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India’s opportunity for sustainable growth
In the second post of a three-part blog series, Tim Dobermann and Nikita Sharma contend that it is important for India to choose a growth trajectory that prioritises raising living standards while min...
- Tim Dobermann Nikita Sharma
- 30 April, 2024
- Perspectives
How social norms hold women back: A look at recent evidence
In light of India’s low female labour force participation rate, as a follow up to International Women’s Day, I4I Deputy Managing Editor Nikita Mujumdar highlights a selection of economic research on s...
- Nikita Mujumdar
- 15 March, 2024
- Perspectives
Does development of transport infrastructure increase rural land inequality?
Investments in transport infrastructure reduce trade costs and lead to integration of villages with urban markets. This article suggests that this spatial integration could have the unintended consequ...
- Claudia Berg Brian Blankespoor M. Shahe Emran Forhad Shilpi
- 08 August, 2023
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Inching towards college: Exploring gender and mobility in India
In the sixth post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Vijaya at al. investigate mobility constraints among college-going students in Jalandhar. They find that while a ...
- Ravneet Bains Naureen Bhullar Ramya Vijaya
- 16 March, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Lockdown-induced trade disruptions and adaptations by firms
In the face of trade disruptions, firms can reorient their trade to minimise risk. This article documents a fall in inter-state trade in India during the Covid-19 lockdown, that continues until Decemb...
- Anindya Chakrabarti Kanika Mahajan Shekhar Tomar
- 24 February, 2023
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Evidence of illegal fuel use by auto rickshaws in Kolkata
In 2008, in an attempt to improve air quality, the Calcutta High Court mandated that all petrol autos in Kolkata and Greater Kolkata be replaced by liquified petroleum gas (LPG) fuelled autos. However...
- Satyaki Sensarma
- 21 February, 2023
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Crime in the village: Does road infrastructure make a difference?
Access to better infrastructure is critical for poverty alleviation and economic development in rural India. Analysing data from the 2004-05 and 2011-12 waves of the India Human Development Survey (IH...
- Shreya Biswas Ritika Jain
- 22 December, 2021
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Webinar video: Navigating Covid-19 impact on agriculture supply chains
In October 2020, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) organised a webinar on ‘Navigating the Impact of Covid-19 on the Agricultu...
- Kumar Das Bijeta Mohanty
- 23 December, 2020
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Agricultural worker exits and crop fires
While the process of moving workers from low- to high-productivity sectors is considered critical for economic development, its environmental impact remains largely unexplored. This article shows that...
- Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla
- 22 December, 2020
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Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future
The impact of the ongoing Covid pandemic is turning out to be multidimensional, and among the long-run considerations that it has brought to the fore are population and pollution. In the run up to Wor...
- Shweta Gupta Rishabh Mahendra
- 03 June, 2020
- Perspectives
Congestion pricing to solve traffic jams? Not so fast!
The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi recently said that the city is likely to become the first in India to have congestion charges in certain stretches. This column reports results from an experimental p...
- Gabriel Kreindler
- 19 March, 2018
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