Policy Roundup: Fed rate cut, ageing South India, Cyclone Dana, crypto regulation
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the impact of US monetary policy announcements on emerging economies, fertility differences across Indian states, resilience and adaptation vis-à-vis climate events, and...
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Nalini Gulati
31 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024
Street vending: Understanding emotional markups and market interactions
Despite the ubiquity of street vending in urban landscapes and its significance as a livelihood choice among the poor, it is challenging to collect comprehensive data on vendors – especially children. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, this article analyses buyer-seller interactions and transactions, to...
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Ronak Jain
28 October, 2024
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Urbanisation
Year: 2024
Poverty is bad – but is vulnerability worse?
Official data reveal that poverty in India has declined significantly over time. In this post, Kamila and Wadhwa make the case for policy discourse to shift towards the phenomenon of ‘vulnerability’. Presenting their view on alternative methods of quantifying vulnerability, they highlight the ch...
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Anshuman Kamila
Sagar Wadhwa
25 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2024
Moratorium on new subsidies to garner resources for public spending on health
Employability is fundamentally driven by human capital development, encompassing health and education. Based on analysis of data from about 100 economies, Shishir Gupta argues that in India, the lack of sufficient public spending constrains healthcare – rather than education, where the issues are ...
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Shishir Gupta
23 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024
Can education propel climate action?
While youth in the developing world are anxious about climate change and ready for action, they are constrained by a lack of information and knowledge. In this post, Masood and Sabarwal discuss insights from a new World Bank Report outlining how education can address this disconnect to drive climate...
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Shwetlena Sabarwal
Surayya Masood
21 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024
When is corporate debt a threat to macroeconomic stability?
Since the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis, policymakers have focused on household debt as the primary risk factor for macroeconomic stability. Should they be similarly worried about corporate debt? Based on data from 115 economies for the period 1940-2014, this article shows that an expansion in cor...
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Karsten Muller
Luc Laeven
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Victoria Ivashina
18 October, 2024
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2024
In-kind transfers: Deadweight losses or gains?
Do in-kind transfers for social assistance lead to ‘deadweight losses’ by restricting consumer choice? This article presents findings from an experiment in Maharashtra, which involved offering low-income respondents the choice between a free quantity of rice and varying amounts of cash to elicit...
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Bharat Ramaswami
Digvijay S. Negi
Gaurav Datt
Klaus Abbink
Lata Gangadharan
16 October, 2024
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2024
Defensive cooperation: Understanding pro-social attitudes in Indian Muslims
Mainstream theories of development predict greater willingness to contribute to public goods in more homogeneous settings. This article reports findings from a study in Delhi slums to assess how Hindus and Muslims respond to social pressure promoting their contribution to community sanitation initia...
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David Romney
Melani Cammett
Poulomi Chakrabarti
14 October, 2024
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024
Reporting of gender-based violence: Why public activism and dialogue matter
The recent case of an on-duty female doctor being brutally raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital, has sparked nation-wide protests and yet again raised serious questions and concerns around women’s safety in India. Examining the impact of the ‘Nirbhaya’ incident in Delhi in 2012 and the res...
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Abhilasha Sahay
11 October, 2024
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024
WazirX: Socialisation of losses and need for financial regulation
The cryptocurrency exchange WazirX recently faced a security breach resulting in huge losses for its users. In this post, Nipuna Varman evaluates the ‘loss socialisation’ recovery plan that was initially put forth, comparing it to the practice of bank bailouts by the government – and highlight...
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Nipuna Varman
10 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2024
Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses how the country’s ‘digital gender divide’ – women’s lower access to and use of information...
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Isha Gupta
07 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024
Impact of the Food Security Act on Public Distribution System
‘Leakages’ from the Public Distribution System – that is, grain released by the Food Corporation of India that fails to reach consumers – stood at around 42% in 2011-12 at an all-India level. Passed in 2013, the National Food Security Act guaranteed food security and mandated PDS reforms. As...
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Reetika Khera
03 October, 2024
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2024