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Contraception as a pathway to better child nutrition and health

India is home to one-third of the world’s stunted children, and half of all under-five mortality can be attributed to undernutrition. Existing literature has shown an association between larger families and poorer child health outcomes. Based on analysis of data from the National Family Health Sur...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2024

Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture: Rohini Pande on 'Regulating Carbon Emissions through Nature-based Solutions'

We invite you to join us on 11 December 2024, for the third annual Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture. This year, the lecture will be delivered by Professor Rohini Pande, who will draw on insights gained from the design of pollution compliance markets and environmental audits in India, to discuss how the...

  • Editors Corner

Content Type: Editors Corner
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

The agricultural productivity gap: Informality matters

There are various explanations in the literature for the observed productivity gap between agriculture and other sectors, in developing countries. Using Indian data, this article questions the standard view of the two-sector productivity gap. It shows that while the productivity gap between the farm...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2024

Female legislators and forest conservation

While women are known to be more concerned about the environment than men, do these preferences translate into action when women hold political power? This article shows that in constituencies reserved for historically marginalised communities, when female politicians win close races against male ca...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Fiscal transfers and natural calamities: Does political alignment matter?

Fiscal transfers from the central government serve as an important mechanism for state governments to mitigate adverse impacts of extreme climate events. This article demonstrates that higher allocations are made to states that are politically aligned with the Centre. Further, the scope for such par...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2024

Financing the climate transition of India’s power sector

A cornerstone of India’s climate transition plan is to shift towards a high-efficiency, low-emission power sector. In this post, Vardhan and Tilotia outline the investment and financing challenges associated with such a shift, by consolidating existing projections under various scenarios for the p...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2024

Synthetic Control Method: Opportunity for policy evaluation

Policy evaluation involves estimating the effect of an intervention, by comparing outcomes in units subjected to the intervention with otherwise similar units not subjected to intervention. However, this may be challenging if there is no appropriate comparison group. In this post, Karan Bhasin discu...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2024

Economic development and crime against women

With economic development, technology becomes more skill-intensive than brawn-intensive, increasing the earning potential of women. Analysing Indian data from 2004-2012, this article shows that the decreasing gender gap is associated with more rapes and indecent assaults against women, particularly ...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2024

Post-Covid informal manufacturing growth: How states fared

Recently released official data show an expansion in informal manufacturing in India in the post-pandemic period. In this post, Goldar and Aggarwal conduct a cross-state analysis and highlight that Bihar led the growth story in terms of the number of enterprises and employment generation. An additio...

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

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...

  • 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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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...

  • Perspectives

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