Tag Search: “public service delivery”
Reshaping social protection in India
As India has undergone a transformation in recent decades in terms of trends such as poverty reduction, food security and urbanisation, there is a need to also revamp the traditional social protection...
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Ejaz Ghani
12 April, 2024
- Perspectives
Enhancing secondary school learning: Role of remedial camps and teacher flexibility
A key dilemma in Indian education is that while children are enrolled in school, they are not actually learning. Based on an experiment in Odisha, this article explores possible solutions to the learn...
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Sabrin Beg
Anne Fitzpatrick
Jason Kerwin
Adrienne Lucas
Khandker Wahedur Rahman
08 April, 2024
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The tribal communities of central India: Challenges and way forward
The ‘Status of Adivasi Livelihoods’ Report has once again brought attention to the dire situation of tribes in central India. Based on a survey of tribal households in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh, ...
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Dibyendu Chaudhuri
Parijat Ghosh
16 February, 2024
- Notes from the Field
How reforming India’s workfare programme raised private sector earnings
By randomising the rollout of improved, biometric payment infrastructure used to issue National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme payments in Andhra Pradesh, this study found that this reform raised i...
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Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar
25 January, 2024
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Second Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture: Inequality, Labour and Social Democracy
The Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture was instituted in 2022, in memory of our founding Editor-in-Chief, as an annual lecture on key issues of development. For its second edition, I4I hosted Professor Pra...
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Pranab Bardhan
I4I Team
20 December, 2023
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Persistent struggle for learning: A tale of tribal regions
The recent National Achievement Survey shows that tribal districts lag behind in learning outcomes. This article suggests this to be of significant concern, as the distribution of schooling infrastruc...
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Rama Pal
Mallika Sinha
01 December, 2023
- Perspectives
The role of caste in agricultural technology diffusion
Local social structures, such as the jati-caste system in India, can play an important role in the extent of diffusion of new and beneficial agricultural technologies. This article builds on an existi...
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Alain de Janvry
Manaswini Rao
Elisabeth Sadoulet
14 November, 2023
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Insights from the rollout of LAKSHYAM – an integrated performance management system
In rural parts of India, Lekhpals or patwaris play an important role in upholding property rights by maintaining land records – however, there is no effective system to track their performance. In thi...
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Sarthak Agrawal
07 November, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Home-based learning through low-cost mobile teaching: Findings from Odisha
Evaluating the effectiveness of a low-cost Home-Based Learning programme implemented during the Covid-19 school closures in Odisha, this article finds that it improved the mathematics and language lea...
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Manini Ojha
Kartik Yadav
12 October, 2023
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The ‘invisible’ disability of mental illness: Barriers to social security access
Sakshi Sharda writes about the how a lack of clarity on the assessment and diagnosis of mental health and poor implementation of social security schemes increases the vulnerability of those livings wi...
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Sakshi Sharda
10 October, 2023
- Perspectives
How Prayagraj is addressing learning poverty in its Anganwadis
Despite increasing school enrolment rates, learning levels in India remain low. In this note, Agrawal and Kheria describe the efforts being made by the district administration in Prayagraj, Uttar Prad...
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Sarthak Agrawal
Utsav Kheria
29 September, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Decentralised targeting of transfer programmes: A reassessment
Ahead of the release of ‘Decentralised Governance: Crafting Effective Democracies Around the World’, Dilip Mookherjee brings together some of the arguments against decentralisation of welfare programm...
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Dilip Mookherjee
25 September, 2023
- Perspectives