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Did Covid-19 pandemic increase incidence of low-birth-weight among newborns?

Globally, one in four babies are born with low birth weight, with long-term impacts on health and economic outcomes. This article uses Indian data from 2019-2021 to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on birth outcomes, given the disruption of essential maternal and neonatal services. It fin...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Beneath the colours: Unveiling Holi's impact on violence against women

While social norms are considered important to the issue of violence against women (VAW), there is little research on how norms impact VAW in public places. Analysing police data from Bihar, this article finds a stark increase of 170% in assaults against women during the festival of Holi as compared...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024

India’s massive employment problem and some ways out

In the recent announcement of India’s Union Budget 2024-25, significant emphasis was placed on the need for job creation. In this post, Pranab Bardhan presents a four-pronged strategy for the sustainable generation of good jobs in the long run: mass-scale vocational education and apprenticeship; r...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Advancing evidence-based tiger conservation

In the world’s most populated nation, natural landscapes are dramatically and rapidly being altered by human enterprise. In this context, Pranav Chanchani advocates for data-driven policymaking to sustain tigers in India – encompassing appropriate linkages to information on social and ecological...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Managing human-wildlife conflict in the Sundarbans

Besides being home to uniquely adapted tigers, the Sundarbans are a source of livelihood for the human population in the region. In this post, Danda and Mukhopadhyay discuss the nature of human-wildlife conflict that arises, and the exacerbating impact of climate change. They detail the measures und...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Introduction to e-Symposium: Tiger conservation in India

Despite a recent upward trend in tiger populations in India, the tiger remains on the endangered species list. Saving the tiger, therefore, is not a fait accompli but a continuous struggle that must be informed by scientific monitoring and analysis. Following Global Tiger Day on 29 July, Ideas f...

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Content Type: Symposium
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Tiger conservation in a changing climate

The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh – the only mangrove tiger habitat – is a top priority for global tiger conservation. Discussing the extreme climate vulnerability of the region, Anamitra Anurag Danda argues that efforts need to go beyond what has been envisaged under the ‘Global Tiger Re...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Policy Roundup: Union Budget and Economic Survey

Following the release of the latest Economic Survey of India and the first Union Budget of the new government, this Policy Roundup applies a ‘jobs’ lens to these documents – presenting key takeaways and highlighting I4I content pertaining to youth employment, skilling, women’s work participa...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

The problem of India’s stagnant real wages

New data from the Labour Bureau and the National Sample Survey Office point to a virtual stagnation of real wages in India over the past decade. In this post, Das and Drèze argue that this trend points to a deep crisis in the country’s informal sector, and warrants a lot more policy attention tha...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2024

RBI’s extraterritorial influence on the rupee market

The emergence of the offshore non-deliverable forward market in the rupee has made it more challenging for the RBI to maintain exchange rate stability. In this post, Datta and Sengupta explain the drivers of growth of this market and how it impacts domestic financial markets. They analyse RBI’s ef...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2024

How can India become a manufacturing powerhouse?

India’s manufacturing sector has been stagnant over the past 20 years, in terms of contribution to national output as well as employment generation. In this article, Ejaz Ghani locates the explanation in the diverging paths of industrialisation and urbanisation, market distortions pertaining to la...

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Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Productivity & Innovation
Year: 2024

Can conversations about minorities reduce discrimination? Evidence from anti-transgender discrimination in Chennai

Discriminatory behaviour is known to adversely impact equity and efficiency in a range of economic and social domains. In the context of discrimination against transgender people in urban Chennai, this article examines whether discrimination may be reduced by peer-to-peer communication among majorit...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024