11 October, 2024Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses ...
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Isha Gupta 
07 October, 2024
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Affirmative action in credit markets: Can it enhance minorities’ welfare?
In 2009, as part of a Government of India programme to improve the welfare of religious minorities, commercial banks were directed to increase credit to these groups. This article finds that the polic...
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S. K. Ritadhi Muhammad Yasir Khan
- 27 August, 2024
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Analysing gender bias in school textbooks in India
If we want girls’ education to help build gender equality, a basic first step is ensuring we are not giving children sexist textbooks. This article analyses gender bias in school textbooks in India ...
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Lee Crawfurd Theodore Mitchell Radhika Nagesh Christelle Saintis-Miller Rory Todd
- 23 August, 2024
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Women empowerment in nutrition: Do women really have a say in preparing and providing food?
Decision-making capacity of women within the household and in the community is considered to be a reflection of their empowerment. In this note, Sweta Bhusan discusses one dimension of decision-makin...
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Sweta Bhusan
- 13 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Women empowerment in nutrition: Ideas of empowerment
As part of the ‘Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index’ project, a group of researchers spoke with rural women and community workers from Araria in Bihar, and Ganjam, Rayagada, Kandhmal, and Nay...
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Sudha Narayanan
- 12 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
How female foeticide has influenced fertility and parental investments in girls
The introduction of ultrasound technology in India has been documented to have led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. However, this column finds that it also decreased son-biased ...
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S Anukriti Sonia Bhalotra Hiu Fung
- 11 September, 2017
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Encountering deprivations in the field
Several women in India face domestic violence, are not allowed to work, and need to seek permission from husbands or in-laws to carry out basic tasks. In this note, Singhal and Vernekar share their e...
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Karan Singhal Nisha Pankaj Vernekar
- 07 September, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Quota policies and career advancement: Evidence from Indian politics
Can quotas for women in politics induce institutional change in the long run? This column examines whether affirmative action for women in Indian local government had spillovers into state and nation...
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Stephen D O'Connell
- 28 August, 2017
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The demographic impact of extended paid maternity leave in Bangladesh
In March 2017, Indian Parliament passed the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 extending paid maternity leave to 26 weeks. This column analyses the impact of extension of paid maternity leave i...
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Salma Ahmed
- 14 June, 2017
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Cash transfers to end child marriage: The Indian experience
For over two decades, policymakers in India have been experimenting with conditional cash transfers to address the issue of child marriage. In this article, Amin et al. contend that financial incenti...
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Sajeda Amin M Niaz Asadullah Sara Hossain Zaki Wahhaj
- 10 April, 2017
- Perspectives
Holy wars: Temple desecrations in medieval India
The rise of extremist groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic State, and their destruction of religious relics, have led some to magnify the presence of religious bigotry in Islamic societies. Usi...
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Sriya Iyer Anand Shrivastava Rohit Ticku
- 27 March, 2017
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Getting India's women into the workforce: Time for a smart approach
In this article, Rohini Pande, the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, contends that raising India’s stubbornly low rate of female labour force participation will r...
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Rohini Pande
- 10 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Women and work in Asia: Insights for India's low female labour force participation
In this article, Sher Singh Verick, Deputy Director, ILO’s Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, shows how India compares with other countries in Asia as well as with other ...
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Sher Singh Verick
- 08 March, 2017
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Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The demand side
National Sample Survey data shows a decline in rural women’s workforce participation between 2004-05 and 2011-12. Rising rural incomes and women’s education over the same period have been taken a...
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Sonalde Desai
- 07 March, 2017
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Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The supply side
Analysis of National Sample Survey data shows that low rates of female labour force participation in India are concentrated among married women in rural areas. This column suggests that this is partl...
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Farzana Afridi Taryn Dinkelman Kanika Mahajan
- 05 March, 2017
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: An update
Building on past research, Saswata Ghosh and Pallabi Das estimate the state- and district-level fertility differentials between Hindus and Muslims using data from the latest round of the NFHS. They sh...
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A division of labourers: Caste identity and efficiency in India
Castes in India are closely associated with certain occupations and determine the jobs done by millions. This study uses a new dataset to show that a large proportion of workers still work in their ca...
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Sex ratios and religion in India and South Asia
In South Asia, low child sex ratios are increasingly an isolated Indian phenomenon. Within India, child sex ratios are ‘normal’ among Christians and Muslims but much lower among Hindus, Sikhs, and...
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