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Ashok Kotwal is the Editor-in-Chief of Ideas for India. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He served as the Head of the Department from 1995-2000 and as the Director, Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2008. His research has focused on development issues such as the process of poverty decline, labour and credit markets in developing countries, the role of agriculture in development, the role of international trade, and rural governance. More recently, he has been engaged in the study of poverty alleviation schemes such as Public Distribution System and MNREGA (Employment Guarantee Act).
Posts by Ashok Kotwal
कृषि कानून: गतिरोध का समाधान
हाल ही में इंडियन एक्सप्रेस के एक लेख में भरत रामास्वामी ने किसानों के विरोध से उत्पन्न मौजूदा संकट को हल करने के लिए कुछ उत्तेजक सुझाव पेश किए हैं। इस पोस्ट में रामास्वामी ने अशोक कोटवाल (प्रधान संपा...
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Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
27 जनवरी, 2021
- दृष्टिकोण
Covid-19 and schooling: 2020 experience and way forward
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it significant challenges for the education sector. On the one hand, closing schools meant imposing a heavy cost on a whole generation of students, and ...
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Rukmini Banerji
Ashok Kotwal
Wilima Wadhwa
24 January, 2021
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I4I के 2020 के हाइलाइट: प्रधान संपादक की टिप्पणी
अब जब हम वर्ष 2021 में प्रवेश कर रहे हैं, प्रधान संपादक अशोक कोटवाल पीछे मुड़ कर देखते हैं कि पिछला वर्ष कितना अभूतपूर्व और महत्त्वपूर्ण रहा है। साथ ही उन्होंने आइडियास फॉर इंडिया के 2020 के मुख्य हाइ...
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Ashok Kotwal
14 जनवरी, 2021
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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.
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Ashok Kotwal
24 December, 2020
- Perspectives
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...
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Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
18 December, 2020
- Perspectives
ई-संगोष्ठी का परिचय: नए कृषि कानून को समझना
क्या कृषि कानून किसानों की आय बढ़ाने में मदद करेंगे? क्या किसानों को बाजारों तक विस्तारित पहुंच से लाभ मिल सकता है? क्या वे कॉन्ट्रैक्ट फार्मिंग के कानून के कारण शहरी फर्मों के साथ अनुबंध स्थापित करने...
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Ashok Kotwal
21 अक्टूबर, 2020
- विचार-गोष्ठी
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...
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Ashok Kotwal
12 October, 2020
- Symposium
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...
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Yamini Aiyar
Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Mekhala Krishnamurthy
Bharat Ramaswami
30 September, 2020
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ड्यूएट: 'कैसे' से पहले 'क्यों' को संबोधित करना
ज्यां द्रेज़ के ड्यूएट प्रस्ताव और इससे संबंधित विचारों पर टिप्पणी करते हुए अशोक कोटवाल यह तर्क देते हैं कि हमें इस तरह के शहरी निर्माण कार्यक्रम के डिज़ाइन के विवरण का गहन अध्ययन करने से पहले इसके औच...
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Ashok Kotwal
29 सितंबर, 2020
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DUET: Addressing ‘why’ before ‘how’
Commenting on Drèze's DUET proposal and related views, Ashok Kotwal argues that we need to consider the rationale for such an urban work programme, before diving into the design details.
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Ashok Kotwal
15 September, 2020
- Perspectives
What would make India’s growth sustainable?
Much of the discussion on the economic slowdown in India in recent years – as well as on the government’s measures to tackle the present economic crisis due to the Covid-19 lockdown – is focused...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
14 August, 2020
- Perspectives
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...
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Ashok Kotwal
02 June, 2020
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