Tag Search: “infrastructure”
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
- Articles
Does rural electrification cause economic development?
The last unelectrified Indian village is now connected to the grid. Given the large investments required for these infrastructure projects, value-for-money is an important consideration. Examining the...
- Fiona Burlig Louis Preonas
- 22 May, 2024
- Articles
Policy Roundup: Voting, wealth redistribution, state of health
This post presents our monthly curation of recent developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to issues ranging from electronic voting machines, vote-buying, and ...
- Nalini Gulati
- 17 May, 2024
- Perspectives
A brighter future: Harnessing solar energy in a Jharkhand village
Simdega district in Jharkhand – one of NITI Aayog’s ‘Aspirational Districts’ – comprises small habitations that are not yet connected to grid-based electricity. In this note, Goswami and co-authors di...
- Sharmistha Baig Animesh Ghosh Anandjit Goswami Rakesh Kacker
- 23 February, 2024
- Notes from the Field
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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Ideas@IPF2023 series: NCAER’s India Policy Forum– where research meets policy
Every year, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) hosts the India Policy Forum (IPF), a platform where economists and policymakers dissect five research ideas for their utility to ...
- Anupma Mehta
- 10 July, 2023
- Symposium
Long-run impacts of tube well irrigation in India
Increasing agricultural productivity may significantly and positively impact welfare, income and the pace of structural transformation. Using India’s Green Revolution and the corresponding self-suffic...
- Parul Jain
- 17 February, 2023
- Articles
I4I@10 | Emerging from Covid-19: Challenges and solutions
As India emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, economists will have to rethink how they understand the Indian economy in context of global volatilities. In this panel, moderated by Amartya Lahiri, Viral...
- Viral Acharya Yamini Aiyar Amartya Lahiri Pronab Sen I4I Team
- 10 February, 2023
- Videos
The future of work from home
With the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, work from home became the norm in 2020. However, even though mobility restrictions have been lifted, many workplaces all over the world continue to follow a m...
- Nicholas Bloom Nirvikar Singh
- 29 July, 2022
- Podcasts
The future of work from home
With the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, work from home became the norm in 2020. However, even though mobility restrictions have been lifted, many workplaces all over the world continue to follow a m...
- Nicholas Bloom Nirvikar Singh
- 29 July, 2022
- Videos
Urban India's housing supply response to migration-induced demand
Has urban housing supply in India kept pace with rising demand? Using Census data between 2001 and 2011, this article studies the market supply of housing in response to migration-induced housing dema...
- Arnab Datta Sahil Gandhi Richard Green
- 24 June, 2022
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Does increasing female representation in school management improve school quality?
The 2009 Right to Education Act (RTE) mandated public and private aided schools to constitute School Management Committees (SMCs) to improve accountability in schools through community participation. ...
- Chandan Jain Bharti Nandwani
- 18 April, 2022
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