22 January, 2021Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari 
21 January, 2021
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Farm laws: Resolving the deadlock
In a recent Indian Express article, Bharat Ramaswami has proposed some rather provocative suggestions on how the present crisis triggered by the farmers’ protests can be resolved. In this post, Rama...
- Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami
- 18 December, 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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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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CPR-I4I webinar video: A new economic imagination?
Centre for Policy Research and Ideas for India jointly held a webinar on 16 September 2020, to discuss domestic demand specifically in rural India. It built on a recent I4I post by three of the speake...
- Yamini Aiyar Maitreesh Ghatak Ashok Kotwal Mekhala Krishnamurthy Bharat Ramaswami
- 30 September, 2020
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कोविड-19: बिहार लौटते प्रवासी मजदूर, ग्रामीण आजीविका तथा सामाजिक सुरक्षा
कोविड-19 के प्रसार को कम करने के लिए लागू किए गए लॉकडाउन के कारण अनेक प्रवासी म...
- Farzana Afridi Arvind Kumar Chaudhary
- 06 August, 2020
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International Day of Education
24 January is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education, to highlight the importance of education for sustainable development and to promote universal, equitable, and inclus...
- I4I Team
- 22 January, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 21 January, 2021
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Evaluating inflation targeting in India
In March 2021, India will complete five years since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by the government and RBI. Analysing inflation data since 1996 using alternative models, this arti...
- Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran
- 20 January, 2021
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Employment entry and exit by women in India
While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – ...
- Soham Sahoo Sudipa Sarkar
- 19 January, 2021
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How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?
While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from t...
- Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Andaleeb Rahman
- 18 January, 2021
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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
- Perspectives
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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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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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: 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
DUET: A proposal for an urban work programme
Jean Drèze presents a proposal for a simple scheme of subsidised public employment in urban areas, generated by multiple public institutions on their own initiative.
- Jean Drèze
- 09 September, 2020
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
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DRAMA at the farm gate
Describing the new ‘APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) Bypass Act’ as a ‘Dual Regulation of Agricultural Marketing Act’ or DRAMA, Jean Drèze argues that the legislation's odd framew...
- Jean Drèze
- 24 December, 2020
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Webinar video: Navigating Covid-19 impact on agriculture supply chains
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- 23 December, 2020
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Evaluating inflation targeting in India
In March 2021, India will complete five years since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by the government and RBI. Analysing inflation data since 1996 using alternative models, this arti...
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- 20 January, 2021
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Land disputes in ‘Santhal Parganas’: Issues and solutions
- Karn Satyarthi
- 15 December, 2020
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Covid-19 crisis: Response should not undermine institutions
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- 15 December, 2020
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International Day of Education
24 January is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education, to highlight the importance of education for sustainable development and to promote universal, equitable, and inclus...
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- 22 January, 2021
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Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
- Alex Armand Britta Augsburg Antonella Bancalari
- 21 January, 2021
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Rising obesity in rural India, under the growing urban shadow
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- 12 January, 2021
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Employment entry and exit by women in India
While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – ...
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- 19 January, 2021
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Covid-19 spread: Does social and economic diversity matter?
- Upasak Das Udayan Rathore Prasenjit Sarkhel
- 15 January, 2021
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Webinar: Growing concern around violence against women
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- 10 December, 2020
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Combating corruption and illicit outflows: A welfare-oriented approach
A discussion of the association between corruption in economies and leakage through illicit outward flows – with important implications for welfare – is missing in the literature. Based on a theor...
- Swapnendu Banerjee Siddhartha Mitra Vivekananda Mukherjee
- 17 December, 2020
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Ethnic identities, public spending, and political regimes
- Sugata Ghosh Anirban Mitra
- 07 December, 2020
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How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?
While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from t...
- Naveen Bharathi Deepak Malghan Andaleeb Rahman
- 18 January, 2021
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Declining common lands in India: Role of economic inequality
- Deepak Malghan Arnab Mukherji Sneha Thapliyal
- 14 January, 2021
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Welfare through workfare? Lessons from the early days of MNREGA
- Stefan Klonner Christian Oldiges
- 16 December, 2020
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Building resilience among ultra-poor for times of crisis
- Maximilian Lohnert Shagun Sabarwal
- 11 December, 2020
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Reducing the flow of plastic to oceans in India
Growing consumer demands are causing the generation of colossal amounts of plastic waste, and the poor state of waste management implies that large proportions of this litter is making its way into th...
- Shiv Kumar Ravinder Kumar Siddhi Mankad Poornima Sheelanere
- 18 December, 2020
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Implementing Forest Rights Act: Story of two villages in Maharashtra
- Sayak Sinha
- 15 July, 2020
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Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future
- Shweta Gupta Rishabh Mahendra
- 03 June, 2020
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Covid-19 crisis: How policy can revive lending appetite among banks
Amid the economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the expected surge in non-performing assets and its potential impact on the fragile capital base of banks, is alarming. In this post, Srini...
- K. Srinivasa Rao
- 09 November, 2020
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India’s insurance sector: Challenges and opportunities
- Kuntala Bandyopadhyay Saon Ray Vasundhara Thakur
- 31 August, 2020
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Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice
Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Teresa Molina Anant Nyshadham
- 11 January, 2021
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No line left behind: How firms match workers and managers
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Vittorio Bassi Shalin Gor Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 18 September, 2020
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Managerial quality and productivity dynamics
- 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?
- Stefano Breschi Francesco Lissoni Ernest Miguelez
- 18 February, 2019
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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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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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RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
- Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
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I4I 2020 highlights: Note from the Editor-in-Chief
As we near the end of 2020, Editor-in-chief Ashok Kotwal reflects on the unprecedented and momentous year that was, and presents key highlights from I4I.
- Ashok Kotwal
- 24 December, 2020
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Phone survey methodology for social and economic research in India
- Diane Coffey Payal Hathi Nazar Khalid Nidhi Khurana Amit Thorat
- 11 November, 2020
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Covid-19: Journey of a construction firm through the lockdown
- Suhas Jangle Bhargav Jangle
- 04 November, 2020
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RCTs for policymaking: Ethical and methodological considerations
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- 02 November, 2020
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