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Sowing sunshine: Can agriphotovoltaics offer a path to doubling farmers’ income?

In recent years, the contribution of agriculture and allied sectors to economic output has declined, with farmers’ real incomes virtually stagnating. This article demonstrates that new ideas such as...

Bidisha Banerjee Subhodeep Basu Soham Roy
16 June, 2025

Perspectives

Agriculture

The State within India’s corporate bond market

The value of gross issuances in India’s corporate bond market has grown by 150% over the past decade. In this post, Harsh Vardhan contends that while the market has become bigger, reforms are needed...

Harsh Vardhan
12 June, 2025

Perspectives

Money & Finance

Internal migration and spatial reorganisation of agriculture

While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. Analysing Indian data, this article shows...

Olivier Deschenes Raahil Madhok Mushfiq Mobarak Frederik Noack
18 June, 2025

Articles

Agriculture

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Building State capacity for accelerating development through effective governance

In a new edition of I4I conversations, Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) is joined by Karthik Muralidharan (University of California, San Diego) to discuss his new book, Accelerating India...

Maitreesh Ghatak Karthik Muralidharan
05 May, 2025

Videos

Governance

Tracking learning outcomes: ASER’s work through the pandemic

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns, schools quickly pivoted to online learning. However, there was limited information about whether children had access to learning m...

Rukmini Banerji Wilima Wadhwa
31 October, 2022

Videos

Human Development

The growing wave of decentralisation: Comparative evidence from developing countries

Over the last few decades, decentralisation has been rapidly spreading in developing countries across the world, with around 35 countries announcing new or deepening decentralisation reforms in recent...

Jean-Paul Faguet Lakshmi Iyer Sarmistha Pal
16 November, 2023

Videos

Governance

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What broad lessons have we learned from 115 studies on unconditional cash transfers?

Globally, around 700 million people currently live in extreme poverty, and in recent years, unconditional cash transfers have emerged as a popular tool for poverty alleviation in low- and middle-incom...

Tommaso Crosta Dean Karlan Finley Ong Julius Ruschenpohler Christopher Udry
20 June, 2025

Articles

Poverty & Inequality

Internal migration and spatial reorganisation of agriculture

Olivier Deschenes Raahil Madhok Mushfiq Mobarak Frederik Noack
18 June, 2025

Articles

Agriculture

Sowing sunshine: Can agriphotovoltaics offer a path to doubling farmers’ income?

Bidisha Banerjee Subhodeep Basu Soham Roy
16 June, 2025

Perspectives

Agriculture

The State within India’s corporate bond market

Harsh Vardhan
12 June, 2025

Perspectives

Money & Finance

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...

Sunil Kanwar
10 June, 2025

Articles

Productivity & Innovation

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Unique Health Identification and Aadhaar: A case for mandatory linkage

As part of the Digital India initiative, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) issues a Unique Health Identification (UHID) number to each patient, which documents their entire journey in th...

Mudit Kapoor
23 December, 2016

Perspectives

Governance

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...

Pallabi Das Saswata Ghosh
18 April, 2023

Articles

Social Identity

Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value

The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...

Gurbachan Singh
29 February, 2016

Articles

Macroeconomics

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...

Saswata Ghosh
27 March, 2019

Articles

Human Development

Land records and titles in India

Land ownership is broadly determined by access to a land title, which protects the rights of the title-holder, and impacts livelihoods, and industrial, economic, and social growth. However, land title...

Prachee Mishra Roopal Suhag
20 November, 2017

Perspectives

Macroeconomics

Symposia

International Women’s Day 2025: Towards equality and empowerment

Throughout this week, I4I has been sharing some of the latest evidence and ideas around women’s empowerment to mark International Women’s Day 2025. Discover the five-part series, and more about I4...

I4I Team
08 March, 2025

Social Identity

Introduction to e-Symposium: Tiger conservation in India

Despite a recent upward trend in tiger populations in India, the tiger remains on the endangered species list. Saving the tiger, therefore, is not a fait accompli but a continuous struggle that must b...

Parikshit Ghosh
31 July, 2024

Environment

Ideas@IPF2024 series: Research from NCAER’s India Policy Forum

Every year, National Council of Applied Economic Research hosts the India Policy Forum, a platform where economists and policymakers dissect research ideas for their relevance to public policy. Follo...