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In an attempt to tackle the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, Government of India announced a Rs. 20 lakh crore Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan financial package, equivalent to 10% of Ind...
Subhasish Dey Anirban Kundu 
06 July, 2020
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The supply-side effects of India’s demonetisation
What were the effects of the 2016 Indian demonetisation that removed 86% of currency in circulation overnight, on the production side of the economy? By combining data from financial statements and su...
- Giri Subramaniam
- 03 July, 2020
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Covid-19: Curated content and resources
Watch this space as we bring together our pick of articles, videos, and podcasts as well as useful links with credible information on Covid-19.
- I4I Team
- 07 April, 2020
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Covid-19: Ashok Kotwal speaks with Pronab Sen
In conversation with Ashok Kotwal on the ongoing economic crisis caused by lockdown to mitigate Covid-19 spread, Pronab Sen breaks down the problem into survival of individuals and livelihoods, and th...
- Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 25 April, 2020
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Webinar video: The Covid-19 Shock
The Covid-19 pandemic and the containment measures adopted to check the spread of the disease, have caused an unprecedented economic crisis in India as well as the rest of the world. Further, India is...
- Parikshit Ghosh Pronab Sen
- 29 June, 2020
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Webinar video: The new Coronavirus and the Indian economy
The global pandemic has created a terrible trade-off for every country between an economic crisis caused by a shutdown of the economic activity and a health crisis and fatalities as the healthcare sys...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 02 June, 2020
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Productivity growth in Indian banking: Who gained?
Since the deregulation and privatisation reforms of the early 1990s, Indian banking has witnessed many significant changes. This article finds that the sector experienced steady productivity growth un...
- Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 07 July, 2020
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Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: Putting the cart before the horse
In an attempt to tackle the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, Government of India announced a Rs. 20 lakh crore Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan financial package, equivalent to 10% of Ind...
- Subhasish Dey Anirban Kundu
- 06 July, 2020
- Perspectives
The supply-side effects of India’s demonetisation
What were the effects of the 2016 Indian demonetisation that removed 86% of currency in circulation overnight, on the production side of the economy? By combining data from financial statements and su...
- Giri Subramaniam
- 03 July, 2020
- Articles
Covid-19 and debt moratorium conundrum: The case of microfinance
Given the extent of liquidity shock caused by Covid-19, the Reserve Bank of India enabled all lending institutions to provide their borrowers with a repayment moratorium on term loans until 31 Augus...
- Giorgia Barboni Misha Sharma
- 02 July, 2020
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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste
B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...
- Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman
- 01 July, 2020
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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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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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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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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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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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Explainers
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
Symposium
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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Food and agriculture during a pandemic: Managing the consequences
A critical fallout of the lockdown following the novel coronavirus pandemic has been a combination of confusion, uncertainty, and anxiety for farmers and consumers alike as to what lies in store in th...
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- 27 March, 2020
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Identifying the binding constraints of agricultural growth in Bihar
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Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan: Putting the cart before the horse
In an attempt to tackle the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, Government of India announced a Rs. 20 lakh crore Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan financial package, equivalent to 10% of Ind...
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Can India improve its public schools? Research says yes
An important policy question is whether the quality of public schools can be improved enough to effectively increase student outcomes. This article examines the effects of a natural experiment to crea...
- Naveen Kumar
- 26 June, 2020
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Science in high school? College and job outcomes
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- 24 June, 2020
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Rethinking ‘mobile camps’ for cancer screening
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- 28 May, 2020
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How India can lead the world to build a functioning public health system
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- 20 May, 2020
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IGC Panel Discussion on gender and education: From policy to practice
The International Growth Centre, in collaboration with the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), the Gender Resource Centre (GRC), the Women Development Corporation of the Government of Bihar, ...
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- 19 June, 2020
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Prejudice in a pandemic: Covid rumours and factory labour supply
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- 08 May, 2020
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IGC Panel Discussion: Women’s economic empowerment
- Shivani Chowdhry Rishabh Mahendra
- 29 April, 2020
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Court congestion, caste identity, and business performance
Effective contract enforcement is the key for the formation and expansion of business enterprises. But how does improvement in court performance matter differently to different caste groups? This arti...
- Tanika Chakraborty Anirban Mukherjee Sarani Saha Divya Shukla
- 14 May, 2020
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Hunger and precarity: The state of nomadic fortune-tellers of Odisha
In this note, Abinash Dash Choudhury, who works as part of a network of researchers to present fortnightly data on the humanitarian crisis associated with Covid-19 in India, writes about the current s...
- Abinash Dash Choudhury
- 30 June, 2020
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Covid-19 relief: Are women Jan Dhan accounts the right choice for cash transfers?
- Anmol Somanchi
- 22 May, 2020
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How has Covid-19 crisis affected urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - II
- Farzana Afridi Amrita Dhillon Sanchari Roy
- 11 May, 2020
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Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future
The impact of the ongoing Covid pandemic is turning out to be multidimensional, and among the long-run considerations that it has brought to the fore are population and pollution. In the run up to Wor...
- Shweta Gupta Rishabh Mahendra
- 03 June, 2020
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Covid-19: Green stimulus to revive a comatose economy
- Aniruddh Mohan Madalsa Singh
- 06 May, 2020
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Impacts of water loss on low-income farmers in Karnataka
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- 20 March, 2020
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Delhi’s air: Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Mohan P George
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- 11 March, 2020
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Productivity growth in Indian banking: Who gained?
Since the deregulation and privatisation reforms of the early 1990s, Indian banking has witnessed many significant changes. This article finds that the sector experienced steady productivity growth un...
- Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 07 July, 2020
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Covid-19 and debt moratorium conundrum: The case of microfinance
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- 02 July, 2020
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Covid-19: Right opportunity to strengthen the Insolvency and Bankruptcy code
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- 11 June, 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...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 27 November, 2019
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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?
- 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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Residential segregation in urban India and persistence of caste
B.R. Ambedkar had exhorted lower-caste people to move towards cities to defy localism and benefit from the virtues of cosmopolitanism that urbanisation might provide. Using 2011 enumeration block-leve...
- Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Sumit Mishra Andaleeb Rahman
- 01 July, 2020
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Mobility and congestion in urban India
- Prottoy A. Akbar Victor Couture Gilles Duranton Adam Storeygard
- 24 July, 2019
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Special purpose vehicles for smart cities: A question on governance
- Meenakshi Sinha
- 05 July, 2019
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Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice
- Divya Ravindranath Divya Varma
- 25 March, 2019
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Trade disruption, industrialisation, and how the sun set on British rule in India
It is argued that by keeping India open to imports of cheap British manufactures, the imperial power made it excessively difficult for Indian industry to emerge in the early 20th century. This article...
- Roberto Bonfatti Björn Brey
- 18 May, 2020
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Harnessing technology to visualise Covid-19 risk across India
- Rajiv Gupta Harish Puppula Sheetal Sekhri
- 24 April, 2020
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Inequality and trade: Simulation evidence for 54 developing nations
- Erhan Artuc Guido Porto Bob Rijkers
- 05 March, 2020
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Should India reconsider participating in e-commerce negotiations at the WTO ?
- Rahul Prakash Neeti Shikha
- 09 December, 2019
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Covid-19 lockdown and criminal activity: Evidence from Bihar
The lockdown imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging consequences for the society. This article analyses the impact of the lockdown on criminal activity in Bihar using up-to-date p...
- Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
- 23 June, 2020
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The institutional partnership model: Embedding evidence into the policy equation
- Sharanya Chandran
- 22 June, 2020
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The politics of post-retirement appointments: Corruption in the Supreme Court?
- Giovanni Ko Madhav Aney Shubhankar Dam
- 15 June, 2020
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The SHRUG: A new high-resolution data platform for research on India
- Samuel Asher Tobias Lunt Paul Novosad
- 13 March, 2020
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