Powering progress: How reliable community electrification boosts women’s autonomy
While there has been significant progress in expanding access to grid electricity in India, the reliability of electricity remains a concern. Based on five national-level datasets spanning over a peri...
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Rikhia Bhukta
Debayan Pakrashi
Sarani Saha
Ashish Sedai
06 January, 2025
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Competitive jobseekers: When sharing less leaves firms at a loss
For efficient matching of jobs and workers in the labour market, it is essential that information on job postings reaches suitable jobseekers. While social networks play a key role in this regard, com...
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Gaurav Chiplunkar
Erin M. Kelley
Gregory Lane
02 December, 2024
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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 ...
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Shishir Gupta
23 October, 2024
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Using geospatial methods in estimating exposure to open defecation
Eliminating open defecation is an important policy priority in India. In this article, Arya, George and Singh from the Centre for Policy Research, illustrate how using readily available geospatial dat...
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Prashant Arya
Nikhil George
Amandeep Singh
03 August, 2016
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Water quality awareness and behaviour change
Universal access to clean water is far from a reality in many developing countries. This column examines a nationwide information campaign that attempted to minimise the use of arsenic-contaminated tu...
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Pinar Keskin
Hannah Ruebeck
Gauri Kartini Shastry
28 July, 2016
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Maternity entitlements for healthier babies
The National Food Security Act, 2013 provides for a maternity benefit of not less than Rs. 6,000 for every pregnant and lactating mother in India. In this article, Coffey and Hathi explain why materni...
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Diane Coffey
Payal Hathi
07 July, 2016
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The growing problem of excess weight in India
The Indian population is increasingly becoming overweight or obese, and this phenomenon is likely to impose a considerable health burden in the future. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development...
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Pushkar Maitra
Nidhiya Menon
27 June, 2016
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Ensuring access to medicines through PPPs
To address the issue of low access to basic medicines by the general public, the state government of West Bengal introduced Fair Price Medicine Shops in secondary and tertiary hospitals through a Publ...
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Satarupa Bandyopadhyay
Arijita Dutta
24 June, 2016
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India's informal doctors: Assets, not crooks
Informal healthcare providers are the most common, and sometimes the only source of healthcare, in much of rural India. In this post, Jishnu Das of the World Bank argues that informal providers should...
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Jishnu Das
13 June, 2016
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What are schools worth?
Since large-scale expansions in education impact both individual behaviours and labour markets, convincing causal estimates of their overall benefits are hard to generate. Analysing the overall econom...
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Gaurav Khanna
01 June, 2016
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Early life nutrition and future educational outcomes: Findings from ICDS
Integrated Child Development Services – India’s flagship child nutrition programme – has recently suffered a major cut in funding. This column shows that supplementary nutrition provided under t...
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Ramanan Laxminarayan
Arindam Nandi
25 April, 2016
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Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme
Private health insurance covering tertiary diseases is limited to the upper middle class in India. One reason for low take-up of publicly-financed health insurance among economically weaker sections i...
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Tarun Jain
12 April, 2016
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The less the merrier? Family size and education in India
In the face of financial constraints, children from larger families are expected to have relatively less education and poor health. This column explores the empirical relevance this ‘quantity-qualit...
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Adriana Kugler
Santosh Kumar
01 April, 2016
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Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme inf...
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Tarun Jain
31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Causes and consequences of low caloric intake in India: Nutrition, productivity, and cognition
Many of the world’s poor consume very few calories. Because calories are not just consumption, but also an input into production, this low consumption may dampen labour productivity and impede decis...
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Sendhil Mullainathan
Heather Schofield
31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011
The 2011 Indian Census data show a higher growth rate of Muslim population compared to the Hindu population. This article provides an in-depth picture of Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials at the di...
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Ten steps to transform the quality of education in India
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Understanding India’s mental health crisis
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, several reports have indicated a worsening of mental health issues among individuals across age groups. In this post, Michele Mary Bernadine examines the stat...
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