30 January, 2023The promise of technology for women’s employment
The growth of digital labour platforms holds tremendous potential to improve employment outcomes for India’s young, urban population. In this post, Farzana Afridi discusses the challenges in leverag...
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Farzana Afridi 
19 January, 2023
- Perspectives
How R&D tax credits can drive price competition in Indian industries
In the last few decades, tax credits have been introduced in many developing countries to incentivise investment in research and development (R&D). Looking at the staggered introduction of R&D tax cre...
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Tanya Jain Rahul Singh
- 05 February, 2024
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AI and services-led growth: Evidence from Indian job adverts
Using a new dataset of online vacancies from India’s largest jobs website, Copestake et al. document near-exponential growth in the demand for artificial intelligence-related skills in the services...
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Alexander Copestake Max Marczinek Ashley Pople Katherine Stapleton
- 19 April, 2023
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No line left behind: How firms match workers and managers
Various studies consistently affirm the importance of strong worker-manager dynamics in driving productivity. Based on analysis of worker-level productivity data, information on orders, and interviews...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu Vittorio Bassi Shalin Gor Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 18 September, 2020
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Managerial quality and productivity dynamics
It is well known that managerial quality impacts firm productivity and growth. Which managerial skills, traits, and practices contribute most to productivity? Are all such traits easily observable? Ar...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu Mansi Kabra Anant Nyshadham Mamta Pimoli Jorge Tamayo
- 27 November, 2019
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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?
India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it cre...
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Stefano Breschi Francesco Lissoni Ernest Miguelez
- 18 February, 2019
- Articles
The changing task content of jobs in India
The ongoing wave of technological revolution across the globe is set to fundamentally change the way goods are produced and services are delivered. Using a task-based framework, this article seeks to ...
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Jay Dev Dubey Pankaj Vashisht
- 13 February, 2019
- Articles
Mapping the Urban World: Integrating High-resolution Satellite Imagery and Night Light Data
This project aims to improve current approaches to chart urban extent across the globe by integrating night light (NTL) data with Landsat 30m resolution satellite images. By applying state-of-the-art ...
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Ran Goldblatt Gordon Hanson Amit Khandelwal
- 30 September, 2018
- IGC Research on India
An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric ...
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Subhashis Banerjee Subodh V. Sharma
- 24 September, 2018
- Perspectives
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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Siddhartha Mitra
- 25 July, 2018
- Explainers
Management and India’s economic growth
India has produced a well-recognised elite of managers, some of whom have demonstrated their capabilities in premier firms outside the country. In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses existing empirica...
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Nirvikar Singh
- 20 July, 2018
- Perspectives
India’s R&D expenditure: Composition matters
While gross expenditure on R&D in India has been on the rise in recent years, it is dominated by public investment. In this post, Sanjib Pohit contends that the current system of allocating public fun...
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Sanjib Pohit
- 18 April, 2018
- Perspectives
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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Bornali Bhandari
- 13 April, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Role of private sector in the holistic skilling of India’s workforce
Low skill levels of workers are a key reason for low labour productivity in developing countries. In this article, Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that centres around two important questions in this...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Lavanya Garg Anant Nyshadham
- 14 March, 2018
- Perspectives
Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...
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Farzana Afridi
- 12 March, 2018
- Symposium
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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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