Night shift bans and female employment in Indian manufacturing
Between 2014 and 2017, seven Indian states amended their regulations to allow women to work night shifts in factories, with the condition that employers provide female-friendly amenities. This article...
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Bhanu Gupta
Kanika Mahajan
Anisha Sharma
Daksh Walia
08 September, 2025
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Exit barriers as entry barriers: Explaining India’s odd development path
Despite an abundance of low-skilled labour, India never experienced the kind of take-off in labour-intensive manufacturing seen in other countries at similar income levels. This article argues that a ...
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Shoumitro Chatterjee
Kala Krishna
Kalyani Padmakumar
Yingyan Zhao
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Planning for ‘jobs of the future’ in a changing world
Following decades of structural transformation, in the coming years, external factors including climate change, increasing automation, and global economic policies will all play a role in determining ...
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Nikita Mujumdar
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India’s data workers: The human labour making machines learn
Technological progress can displace workers from existing work, as well as create new work. Combined with demographic changes and macroeconomic fluctuations, it has also spurred the growth of non-stan...
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Neha Arya
11 September, 2025
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Night shift bans and female employment in Indian manufacturing
Between 2014 and 2017, seven Indian states amended their regulations to allow women to work night shifts in factories, with the condition that employers provide female-friendly amenities. This article...
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Bhanu Gupta
Kanika Mahajan
Anisha Sharma
Daksh Walia
08 September, 2025
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Exit barriers as entry barriers: Explaining India’s odd development path
Despite an abundance of low-skilled labour, India never experienced the kind of take-off in labour-intensive manufacturing seen in other countries at similar income levels. This article argues that a ...
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Shoumitro Chatterjee
Kala Krishna
Kalyani Padmakumar
Yingyan Zhao
29 August, 2025
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Global software piracy: Does US Special 301 pressure matter?
Section 301 of the US Trade Act seeks to combat global software piracy, with non-compliance by partner countries potentially leading to trade sanctions. Examining data from 1994-2017 involving 83 coun...
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Sunil Kanwar
10 June, 2025
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Manufacturing share in GDP: Comparing India with China and South Korea
: It is commonly believed that Indian manufacturing performance is weak, as the sector has not been able to capture a large enough GDP share. Presenting a comparison of manufacturing share in gross do...
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Bishwanath Goldar
26 May, 2025
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Planning for ‘jobs of the future’ in a changing world
Following decades of structural transformation, in the coming years, external factors including climate change, increasing automation, and global economic policies will all play a role in determining ...
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Nikita Mujumdar
01 May, 2025
- Perspectives
Wartime mobilisation and economic development in India
Can temporary wartime mobilisation permanently reshape an economy? This article shows that Indian districts that received more orders related to World War II saw greater transformation from agricultur...
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Aneesha Parvathaneni
Dean Yang
03 April, 2025
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Complementarity between labour and energy in Indian manufacturing
As India develops its carbon markets to mitigate climate change, it is important to consider the short-term costs for industry. Analysing data on formal manufacturing from 2009-10 to 2019-20, this art...
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Raavi Aggarwal
24 March, 2025
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Unlocking women’s workforce potential
Despite significant progress in educational attainment and health outcomes, India lags in enabling women’s economic participation, which, in turn, impedes the goal of fast and inclusive economic gro...
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Aakash Dev
Ratna Sahay
03 March, 2025
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Old or new: What’s driving employment growth in formal manufacturing?
As the government undertakes various initiatives for manufacturing, it is important to understand what type of firms drive employment growth in the sector. Based on data on registered firms from the A...
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Radhicka Kapoor
P.P. Krishnapriya
28 February, 2025
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Technological advancement and employment changes: Recent trends in India
What is the impact of rapid technological advancements on employment in the Indian economy? In this post, Kathuria and Dev analyse ‘Consumer Pyramids Household Survey’ data to explore this questio...
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Aakash Dev
Rajat Kathuria
24 January, 2025
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Feminisation of India’s industrial workforce
In recent years, the average annual growth rate in manufacturing employment has exceeded that of aggregate employment in India. In this post, Goldar and Aggarwal demonstrate that this trend is accompa...
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Suresh Chand Aggarwal
Bishwanath Goldar
22 January, 2025
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
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Tripura’s bamboo sector: Potential and challenges
About a third of the total area of Tripura is covered by bamboo, and bamboo has emerged as a key thrust area for the state’s industrial development. Based on a field visit that was undertaken to stu...
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An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
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