17 July, 2019Government securities market: Price discovery and the cost of Indian government borrowing
The government securities (G-Secs) market has substantial effects on other markets as the producer of risk-free interest rate benchmarks. Over 2017-18, there was a sharp rise in the interest rates of ...
Ashima Goyal 
15 July, 2019
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Right to Education Act: Trends in enrolment, test scores, and school quality
A decade ago, India joined a range of countries that mandate free, compulsory education for school-aged children. Passed in August 2009, India’s Right to Education Act was potentially transformative...
- Manisha Shah
- 12 July, 2019
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Social protection in the Union Budget 2019
In this post, Sudha Narayanan analyses the provisions pertaining to social protection in the Union Budget 2019. She contends that while the budgetary figures give the impression that the Government is...
- Sudha Narayanan
- 10 July, 2019
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Financing growth and diversification of Bihar’s agriculture
In a panel discussion held at Patna, Bihar in December 2018, Anjan Mukherji (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Mekhala Krishnamurthy (Ashoka University), Avinash Kishore (International Food Policy Researc...
- Avinash Kishore Mekhala Krishnamurthy Anjan Mukherji Bharat Ramaswami Pronab Sen
- 05 April, 2019
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I4I Panel Discussion: The way forward for the Indian economy
In December 2018, I4I organised a panel discussion on ‘The Way Forward for the Indian Economy’ with K.P. Krishnan (Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship), T.N. Ninan (Business Standar...
- Ashok Kotwal K.P. Krishnan T. N. Ninan Ila Patnaik
- 29 January, 2019
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Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Debraj Ray
In this podcast, I4I Editor Parikshit Ghosh (Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) speaks with Debraj Ray (Julius Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and Professor of Economics, N...
- Parikshit Ghosh Debraj Ray
- 13 February, 2018
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A silver lining in India’s employment scenario
The latest jobs data released by the government showed a record high unemployment rate of 6.1% in 2017-18, but a rise in the share of workers with a regular job in urban areas. In this post, Mehta and...
- Arjun Kumar Balwant Singh Mehta
- 17 July, 2019
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Government securities market: Price discovery and the cost of Indian government borrowing
The government securities (G-Secs) market has substantial effects on other markets as the producer of risk-free interest rate benchmarks. Over 2017-18, there was a sharp rise in the interest rates of ...
- Ashima Goyal
- 15 July, 2019
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Right to Education Act: Trends in enrolment, test scores, and school quality
A decade ago, India joined a range of countries that mandate free, compulsory education for school-aged children. Passed in August 2009, India’s Right to Education Act was potentially transformative...
- Manisha Shah
- 12 July, 2019
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Social protection in the Union Budget 2019
In this post, Sudha Narayanan analyses the provisions pertaining to social protection in the Union Budget 2019. She contends that while the budgetary figures give the impression that the Government is...
- Sudha Narayanan
- 10 July, 2019
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Agriculture and the Union Budget: policies and prospects
In this post, Shoumitro Chatterjee and Mekhala Krishnamurthy analyse the key proposals in the Union Budget 2019 pertaining to reforms in agricultural market, ease of doing business for farmers, and ag...
- Shoumitro Chatterjee Mekhala Krishnamurthy
- 09 July, 2019
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Giving up too early on malnourished children? Catch-up growth and Midday Meals
It is widely believed that malnourishment in the first few years of childhood adversely affects cognition and adult economic outcomes. This column presents new research which shows that full recovery...
- Abhijeet Singh
- 14 April, 2014
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Evidence, policy, and politics
Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he bel...
- Jean Drèze
- 03 August, 2018
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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
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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
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Financial inclusion in India: Progress and prospects
Financial inclusion is globally considered as a critical indicator of development and well-being of society. In this post, Srinivasa Rao traces the financial inclusion journey in India so far, and dis...
- K. Srinivasa Rao
- 11 July, 2018
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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...
- Mousumi Das Siddhartha Mitra
- 25 July, 2018
Explainer: India’s payments banks
In August 2015, the RBI issued in-principle licences to 11 entities to establish payments banks in India – a unique format of banking which has not been used anywhere else in the world. Fully based ...
- Rahul Choudhury
- 30 May, 2018
Explainer: Conceptual foundations of cryptocurrencies
In recent times, cryptocurrencies have become a subject of intense deliberations among policymakers, market participants, investors, and other stakeholders. Whether cryptocurrencies will revolutionis...
- Radhika Pandey Bhavyaa Sharma
- 21 March, 2018
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Decoding Congress’ NYAY
A major announcement in the Congress manifesto, in the ongoing parliamentary election, is the minimum income guarantee proposal – Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY). In this symposium, Bharat Ramaswami (Asho...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 01 May, 2019
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...
- Farzana Afridi
- 12 March, 2018
Introduction to e-Symposium: Women and work in India
Female labour force participation in India has been low and stagnant over the past few decades. I4I Editor Farzana Afridi is hosting an e-symposium to examine research that explores the reasons for t...
- Farzana Afridi
- 03 March, 2017
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India's farm crisis: Decades old and with deep roots
In this Perspectives piece, Prof. Himanshu argues that the crisis in Indian agriculture today is not a new one; it goes back many years. Therefore, the problems of farmers cannot be addressed by the b...
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Financing growth and diversification of Bihar’s agriculture
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When technology disrupts politics: Lessons from India’s green revolution
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- 14 January, 2019
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Groundwater depletion in India: Social losses from costly well deepening
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A silver lining in India’s employment scenario
The latest jobs data released by the government showed a record high unemployment rate of 6.1% in 2017-18, but a rise in the share of workers with a regular job in urban areas. In this post, Mehta and...
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Social protection in the Union Budget 2019
In this post, Sudha Narayanan analyses the provisions pertaining to social protection in the Union Budget 2019. She contends that while the budgetary figures give the impression that the Government is...
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Building foundations well: The challenge for primary education
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- 03 July, 2019
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A quiet revolution: The case of primary education in Uttar Pradesh
- Shobhini Mukerji
- 31 May, 2019
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It runs in the family: Parents’ education and child learning outcomes
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Prevalence and evolution of dowry in India
Dowry payments are an important part of household finances in India, typically exceeding a year of earnings. This article analyses data from an all-India sample of over 70,000 marriages to document fa...
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- 24 June, 2019
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Traditional hierarchies and affirmative action in a globalising economy: Evidence from India
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Using mobiles to improve governance
Measuring how well major public programmes are implemented remains a core governance challenge. With the increasing mobile-phone penetration in the country, Muralidharan, Niehaus, Sukhtankar, and Weav...
- Karthik Muralidharan Paul Niehaus Sandip Sukhtankar Jeffrey Weaver
- 26 June, 2019
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Power to the people: The impact of political report cards in India
- Abhijit Banerjee
- 27 May, 2019
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Wealth inequality, class, and caste in India: 1961-2012
The level of wealth inequality in India is close to that of some highly unequal countries in the world. This article assesses the long-term evolution of wealth inequality in the country for the period...
- Nitin Kumar Bharti
- 28 June, 2019
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What do poor people think about direct cash transfers?
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NYAY e-symposium: Tool for addressing multidimensional poverty
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- 03 May, 2019
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NYAY e-Symposium: Prioritise expansion of National Social Assistance Programme
- Pronab Sen
- 03 May, 2019
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The ‘Right to Energy’ and carbon tax: A game changer in India
India's carbon emissions in 2014 were more than three times its level in 1990. While the emissions have increased sharply, their distribution across income groups is extremely skewed. The poor in Indi...
- Rohit Azad Shouvik Chakraborty
- 22 April, 2019
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Gone with the wind: Crop-burning and the human costs of pollution
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- 20 March, 2019
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Rural electrification and structural transformation: A guar(anteed) bet?
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- 23 January, 2019
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Amalgamation of public sector banks: The task ahead
The central government has proposed amalgamation of three public sector banks (PSBs), the first stage of which has been completed. This strategic move is touted to be the beginning of transformation o...
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- 26 November, 2018
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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...
- Stefano Breschi Francesco Lissoni Ernest Miguelez
- 18 February, 2019
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An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
- Subhashis Banerjee Subodh V. Sharma
- 24 September, 2018
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
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- 25 July, 2018
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Special purpose vehicles for smart cities: A question on governance
All 100 cities selected to become ‘smart cities’ under the Smart Cities Mission in India have Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) incorporated in them. In this note, Meenakshi Sinha posits that the SP...
- Meenakshi Sinha
- 05 July, 2019
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The new globalisation and income inequality
Trade in intermediates (or ‘unbundling of production') and trade in capital have become increasingly important in last 25 years. This article shows that trade in intermediates generates a reallocati...
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- 19 June, 2019
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Field missions and data stories
Data lies at the heart of research and policymaking in the social sector. But where does this data really come from? In this note, Prerna Mukharya (Founder, Outline India, Track your metrics), shares ...
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- 01 July, 2019
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I4I Panel Discussion: The way forward for the Indian economy
- Ashok Kotwal K.P. Krishnan T. N. Ninan Ila Patnaik
- 29 January, 2019
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I4I Event: What is the way forward for the Indian economy?
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- 17 December, 2018
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Winner of Infosys Prize 2018 in Social Sciences: Sendhil Mullainathan
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