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कोविड-19 और दीर्घकालिक गरीबी: ग्रामीण राजस्थान से साक्ष्य

प्रारंभिक गणना के आधार पर, भारत में कोविड-19 के कारण 7.7 से 22 करोड़ लोग गरीबी में आ गए हैं, जिसके अनुसार अब शहरी आबादी में गरीब 60% और ग्रामीण आबादी में 70% हो गए हैं। वर्ष 2002 में ग्रामीण राजस्थान म...

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Covid-19 and long-term poverty: Evidence from rural Rajasthan

Based on preliminary calculations, it is being reported that 77-220 million have fallen into poverty in India on account of Covid-19, with the poor now accounting for 60% of urban, and 70% of rural re...

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कोविड-19: भारत की झुग्‍गी-बस्तियों में स्वास्थ्य तथा आर्थिक प्रभाव

प्रारंभिक अनुमानों में यह कहा गया था कि कोविड-19 से झुग्गी-बस्तियों में रहने वाले लोग सबसे बुरी तरह प्रभावित होंगे क्‍योंकि वे अत्‍यधिक घनी बसी आबादी में रहते हैं, वहां साझा नल होते हैं और वहां सामाजि...

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Covid-19: Health and economic impacts in Indian slums

Initial predictions suggested that slum communities – densely packed, with shared water taps, and an impossibility of social distancing – would be particularly hard-hit by Covid-19. In this note, ...

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Food subsidy – PDS, cash, or both?

Should food subsidies – currently availed in the form of subsidised cereals – be given out in the form of cash instead? In this post, Krishna and Agrawal contend that rather than asking this binar...

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Social Networks, Property Rights and Public Services in the Slums of Patna and Jaipur

This project provides important original insight into the factors that condition the capacity of the urban poor to achieve formal recognition of slums, private property rights, and better public servi...

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Rags to riches? Understanding social mobility in India

To what extent is an individual’s status in society determined by the position of his or her parents? Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey, 2011-2012, this column finds that the p...

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The root of poverty: Ruinous healthcare costs

While natural disasters and political turmoil rightly grab our attention, this column shows that it is everyday events that drag most people into poverty. For many, the first of these is illness and t...

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The resurgence of poverty

Policymakers who aim only at lifting people out of poverty miss an essential fact: even as many people move out of poverty, many others fall back into it. This column argues that tackling poverty requ...

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