26 April, 2019Oral democracy
Critical scrutiny of the challenges of electoral democracy including elite capture, corruption, and patronage has led to a revival of the idea of direct democracy – giving power directly to groups o...
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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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The persistent gender gap in political participation in India
Women as citizens show up and speak up less in political spaces than men across the globe, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries. This article studies the persistent gender gap in politic...
- Soledad Prillaman
- 15 April, 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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Do roads bring votes in rural India?
A large-scale rural roads programme in India has provided access to over two-third of villages that lacked a paved road in 2001. Do citizens reward incumbent governments electorally for these improvem...
- Tanushree Goyal
- 26 April, 2019
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Oral democracy
Critical scrutiny of the challenges of electoral democracy including elite capture, corruption, and patronage has led to a revival of the idea of direct democracy – giving power directly to groups o...
- Vijayendra Rao Paromita Sanyal
- 24 April, 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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Are transparency and accountability enough? Open corruption and why it exists
While India’s federal anti-corruption ombudsmen have just taken up their work, awareness of the complexity of corruption is growing. This article studies whether highly accountable Indian village co...
- Dahyeon Jeong Ajay Shenoy Laura Zimmermann
- 18 April, 2019
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The persistent gender gap in political participation in India
Women as citizens show up and speak up less in political spaces than men across the globe, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries. This article studies the persistent gender gap in politic...
- Soledad Prillaman
- 15 April, 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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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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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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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: 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
On demonetisation
On the evening of 8 November, the Prime Minister announced on national television that Rs. 1,000 and 500 notes are no longer legal tender, and must be exchanged at the banks for newly issued currency....
- Parikshit Ghosh
- 23 December, 2016
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India's farm crisis: decades old and with deep roots
In this post, 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 band-aids of hi...
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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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- 12 December, 2018
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Firm formation in India: The last 40 years
Research shows that entrepreneurship or new firm formation can be an important driver of economic development. This article studies the extent of new firm formation in India over the last 40 years and...
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- 01 April, 2019
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Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong
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Interim Budget 2019: Rising fiscal deficit in a 'booming' economy
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How tax incentives influence household financial saving
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- 28 January, 2019
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What do children in rural India do in their early years?
This year’s Annual Status of Education Report throws light on what children in India do in their early years. In this article, Bhattacharjea and Ramanujan argue that the assumption that there is a u...
- Suman Bhattacharjea Purnima Ramanujan
- 29 March, 2019
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011
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- 27 March, 2019
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Choosing among children: Early childhood investments in India
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The persistent gender gap in political participation in India
Women as citizens show up and speak up less in political spaces than men across the globe, particularly in lower- and middle-income countries. This article studies the persistent gender gap in politic...
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- 15 April, 2019
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Do roads bring votes in rural India?
A large-scale rural roads programme in India has provided access to over two-third of villages that lacked a paved road in 2001. Do citizens reward incumbent governments electorally for these improvem...
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- 26 April, 2019
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Are transparency and accountability enough? Open corruption and why it exists
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Should civil servants be allowed to serve in their home areas?
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Can Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income guarantee proposal work?
Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised a minimum income guarantee scheme for the poor if the party is voted to power in the upcoming elections. Discussing the proposal and associated concerns, P...
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- 07 February, 2019
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Cash transfers and adult labour outcomes in developing countries
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- 07 December, 2018
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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
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- 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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Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice
Seasonal migrants in India engage in temporary informal work in work environments that actively flout labour laws on wages, work hours, and living conditions. The most significant impact of this is on...
- Divya Ravindranath Divya Varma
- 25 March, 2019
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Trade agreements and their impact on India’s apparel exports
Slow progress of the Doha Round of WTO negotiations has led to a proliferation of regional and bilateral trade agreements, and consequent increase in trade among their members. While India continues t...
- Arpita Mukherjee Anusree Paul Angana Parashar Sarma Soham Sinha
- 07 January, 2019
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Trade rules in e-commerce: Opportunities and concerns for India
- Avantika Kapoor Arpita Mukherjee
- 04 June, 2018
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The Study of the Food Processing Industry in Bihar
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- 08 July, 2017
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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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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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