12 February, 2025Policy Roundup: 1.5 degree breach, Trump’s America, ASER 2024
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the widespread negative effects of climate change and what can be done to mit...
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Nalini Gulati 
31 January, 2025
- Perspectives
Making sense of the 2024 Economics Nobel
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. In this post, Pulapre Balakrishnan evaluate...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
- 06 December, 2024
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The man who loved forests
On Ideas for India’s 10th anniversary, our Editor-in-Chief Parikshit Ghosh pens a tribute honouring the late Ashok Kotwal, whose vision and values percolated our portal’s character to make it a ve...
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Parikshit Ghosh
- 19 July, 2022
- Editors Corner
Phone survey methodology for social and economic research in India
Data collection using face-to-face surveys has faced a roadblock in the wake of restricted mobility and social distancing guidelines to contain the spread of Covid-19. In this post, Coffey et al. desc...
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Diane Coffey Payal Hathi Nazar Khalid Nidhi Khurana Amit Thorat
- 11 November, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Journey of a construction firm through the lockdown
To check the spread of Covid-19, Government of India announced a stringent, three-week national lockdown on 25 March 2020 – with some easing of restrictions in subsequent phases. This note chronicle...
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Bhargav Jangle Suhas Jangle
- 04 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field
RCTs for policymaking: Ethical and methodological considerations
The last decade has seen an increased adoption of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for answering policy questions in developing countries. RCTs are being preferred over other research methods mainl...
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Sneha P
- 02 November, 2020
- Perspectives
Doing our bidding: Auctions and the greater common good
This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. In this post, Parikshit Ghosh discus...
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Parikshit Ghosh
- 27 October, 2020
- Perspectives
In the eyes of the beholder: How artisans set prices for their products
The developing world is replete with people working in low-income, but creative occupations, such as artisanship. However, little is concretely known about how they set prices for their products. Base...
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Aruna Ranganathan
- 13 August, 2020
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Covid-19 lockdown and criminal activity: Evidence from Bihar
The lockdown imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging consequences for the society. This article analyses the impact of the lockdown on criminal activity in Bihar using up-to-date p...
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Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
- 23 June, 2020
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The institutional partnership model: Embedding evidence into the policy equation
One path for capitalising on government interest in evidence-informed policymaking is for the research community to build long-term institutional partnerships with governments to create an ecosystem w...
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Sharanya Chandran
- 22 June, 2020
- Notes from the Field
The SHRUG: A new high-resolution data platform for research on India
The Socioeconomic High-resolution Rural-Urban Geographic Dataset on India (SHRUG) is a new data source that describes socioeconomic development in India. In this post, Asher, Lunt, and Novosad describ...
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Samuel Asher Tobias Lunt Paul Novosad
- 13 March, 2020
- Perspectives
Death penalty for gender-based violence: A band-aid solution for a broken system
In 2018, Government of India amended the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Indian Penal Code to provide for death penalty for rape of children under 12 years of ...
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Shreeradha Mishra
- 17 January, 2020
- Perspectives
Note from I4I Team: Happy Holidays!
We are now closed for Christmas and New Year, until Thursday, 2 January 2020. We will be back in the New Year with new articles, perspectives, notes from the field, e-symposia, explainers, videos, and...
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I4I Team
- 23 December, 2019
- Perspectives
A village’s journey of alcohol de-addiction due to children’s campaigning
In just two years, the alcohol addiction of an entire village could be eliminated due to the efforts of a school’s students and their teacher in Sangli district of Maharashtra. In this note, Shirish...
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Shirish Khare
- 20 December, 2019
- Notes from the Field
What lies behind this year's economics Nobel
In this post, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses how randomised controlled trials – the use of which was pioneered by this year’s economics Nobel Laureates, Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer – have been succe...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
- 25 October, 2019
- Perspectives
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Evidence, policy, and politics
Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he bel...
- Jean Drèze
- 03 August, 2018
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On the perils of embedded experiments
There is growing interest in ‘embedded experiments’, conducted by researchers and policymakers as a team. Aside from their potential scale, the main attraction of these experiments is that they se...
- Jean Drèze
- 10 March, 2022
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The particulars of social policy in India: Evidence, State capacity, and policy design
Economist-activist Jean Drèze has argued that economists are no better equipped to comment on development policy design than other social science researchers and other stakeholders, and that policyma...
- Apurva Bamezai M.R. Sharan
- 12 September, 2018
- Perspectives