10 August, 2022Caste-based differences in self-help groups: Evidence from a rural livelihood programme
The National Rural Livelihood Mission aims to increase income and improve wellbeing for rural households. Using survey data from nine states in India, this article analyses the existence of caste-base...
Chandan Jain Krishna Kejriwal Ritwik Sarkar Pooja Sengupta 
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Potential to further strengthen the Census Act
In reference to the Census (Amendment) Rules introduced in March 2022, Garhwal and Sapre outline the scope to further strengthen the Census Act and its administration. With the introduction of self-en...
- Amey Sapre Harshvardhan Singh Garhwal
- 01 August, 2022
- Perspectives
Introducing I4I's new Editor-in-Chief & Co-Editors
Ideas for India (I4I) is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. Parikshit Ghosh as its new Editor-in-Chief. He succeeds I4I's founding Editor-in-Chief, the late Prof. Ashok Kotwal.
- I4I Team
- 30 June, 2022
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Leveraging digital labour markets to increase employment opportunities
India’s relatively young population, the pace of adoption of smartphones and digital technology, and rapid urbanisation has contributed to the growth of digital labour markets. In recent years, we h...
- Farzana Afridi Sakshi Khurana K. Rajeswara Rao
- 28 June, 2022
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Automation and inequality
Public discourse around automation has seen some take a fairly alarmist view – with concerns around its impact on employment, wages, the labour share of national income, and inequality. Others take ...
- Dilip Mookherjee Pascual Restrepo
- 04 May, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this editio...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
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Are cities holding India back from reaching its ambitious net zero targets?
While per capita emissions in global cities are significantly lower than the national average, large Indian cities like Delhi and Kolkata emit up to double the national average. Shah and Downes look a...
- Sam Downes Jagan Shah
- 10 August, 2022
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Demographic and development outcomes of administrative proliferation
This creation of new administrative districts by splitting existing districts is a frequent occurrence in India, where the number of districts has more than doubled in the last four decades. Looking a...
- Deepak Malghan Jothsna Rajan
- 08 August, 2022
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Caste-based differences in self-help groups: Evidence from a rural livelihood programme
The National Rural Livelihood Mission aims to increase income and improve wellbeing for rural households. Using survey data from nine states in India, this article analyses the existence of caste-base...
- Chandan Jain Krishna Kejriwal Ritwik Sarkar Pooja Sengupta
- 05 August, 2022
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Potential to further strengthen the Census Act
In reference to the Census (Amendment) Rules introduced in March 2022, Garhwal and Sapre outline the scope to further strengthen the Census Act and its administration. With the introduction of self-en...
- Amey Sapre Harshvardhan Singh Garhwal
- 01 August, 2022
- Perspectives
The future of work from home
With the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, work from home became the norm in 2020. However, even though mobility restrictions have been lifted, many workplaces all over the world continue to follow a m...
- Nicholas Bloom Nirvikar Singh
- 29 July, 2022
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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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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
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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
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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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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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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...
- Siddhartha Mitra
- 25 July, 2018
GST Explainer: Introduction
Seventeen years after its framework was formed, India’s biggest tax reform – the goods and services tax – was rolled out on 1 July 2017. Some consider the ‘one nation, one tax’ system to be ...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 30 June, 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
- 31 May, 2018
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing quest...
- Devesh Kapur Neelanjan Sircar Milan Vaishnav
- 06 December, 2021
Covid-19 and mental health: Introduction to e-Symposium
The Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns had a devastating effect on the economy, with loss of livelihoods, earnings, and food insecurity suffered by the most vulnerable sections. Although econo...
- Farzana Afridi
- 20 September, 2021
Introduction to e-Symposium: Understanding the new farm laws
Would the farm laws help increase farmers’ incomes? Could farmers benefit from an expanded access to markets? Would they be more willing to engage in contracts with urban firms because of the law on...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 12 October, 2020
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Wheat export ban and heat stress: Balancing the trade-off between food security and farmers’ income
The recent imposition of a ban on wheat exports, in a bid to ensure food security, has meant that farmers will not realise the benefits from the recent increase in global wheat prices. In this post, K...
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Addressing the economic trade-offs of interlinkages in contemporary agrarian markets
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Easing contracting frictions with machines: Evidence from Karnataka
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Little evidence for 'too much finance'
The current consensus that the finance-growth nexus is more complex than previously assumed has led to concerns about ‘too much finance’. Using a large panel dataset over six decades, this article...
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An illusory Phillips curve: Is now the right time for a rate hike?
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Remedying poor student assessment data in India
Taking into account existing evidence on the accuracy of administrative data on student learning levels in India, Singh and Ahluwalia discuss why a reliable system of student assessment matters; fixin...
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- 26 July, 2022
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To invest in sanitation or not? The role of gender differences in perceptions
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Caste-based differences in self-help groups: Evidence from a rural livelihood programme
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Demographic and development outcomes of administrative proliferation
This creation of new administrative districts by splitting existing districts is a frequent occurrence in India, where the number of districts has more than doubled in the last four decades. Looking a...
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Do value-added taxes benefit firms? Evidence from the adoption of state-specific value-added taxes
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Private returns to bureaucratic appointments: Evidence from financial disclosures in India
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Fixing incentives for power plants to reduce outages
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The post-pandemic global inequality boomerang
Global inequality has fallen over the last three decades, despite a rise in inequality within some countries. This article uses a World Bank database covering the years 1981-2019 to posit that the dec...
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Urban exclusion: Rethinking social protection in India in the wake of Covid-19
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Using personalised information delivery to improve uptake of emergency government benefits
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A microfinance model to enhance borrowers’ lifetime utility
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Reducing information barriers to solar adoption: Experimental evidence from India
A large number of people lack access to reliable and high-quality electricity supply. Off-grid solar technologies can fill this gap, but adoption remains low. This article looks at the role of informa...
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- 13 July, 2022
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Pledges, plans, and actions: An analysis of India’s Panchamrit pledges
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The role of regulatory innovation in reversing India’s environmental degradation
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In extremity and externality: Need for policies to protect children from environmental crises
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Accumulation of household debt in India: Repercussions for economic recovery
The Covid-19 crisis and the subsequent recession has brought about a shift in financial savings; households have cut back on consumption and reduced their demand for credit, and banks tightened lendin...
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- 18 July, 2022
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The future of work from home
With the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, work from home became the norm in 2020. However, even though mobility restrictions have been lifted, many workplaces all over the world continue to follow a m...
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- 29 July, 2022
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Birth versus worth: Impact of the caste system on entrepreneurship in India
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- 28 July, 2022
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Are cities holding India back from reaching its ambitious net zero targets?
While per capita emissions in global cities are significantly lower than the national average, large Indian cities like Delhi and Kolkata emit up to double the national average. Shah and Downes look a...
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Urban India's housing supply response to migration-induced demand
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Making city planning democratic: Reflections from ‘Main Bhi Dilli’ campaign
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- 29 October, 2021
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Challenges of solid waste management: The case of Patna city
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- 25 January, 2021
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Safeguarding strategic interests with development finance? India's response to China's expanding footprint in the Global South
Studies have suggested that both India and China use grants and concessional loans as a means to gain favour with developing countries. Using 2007-2014 data on development projects implemented by the ...
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Global supply chain disruptions: Causes and the way ahead
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Global value chain participation and intermediate export sophistication
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Potential to further strengthen the Census Act
In reference to the Census (Amendment) Rules introduced in March 2022, Garhwal and Sapre outline the scope to further strengthen the Census Act and its administration. With the introduction of self-en...
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- 01 August, 2022
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