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Rahul Lahoti

Azim Premji University
rahul.lahoti@gmail.com

Rahul Lahoti is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University, New York. His research focuses mostly on issues of poverty, inequality, gender and political economy.

Posts by Rahul Lahoti

ग्रामीण भारत में स्कूल का चयन: धारणा बनाम वास्तविकता

कम शुल्क वाले निजी स्कूलों की संख्या मे वृद्धि होने के साथ भारत में स्कूलों के विकल्पों में काफी वृद्धि हुई है और इसे स्कूली शिक्षा के लिए बाजार-आधारित दृष्टिकोण के अंतर्गत महत्वपूर्ण माना जाता है। ग्...

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School choice in rural India: Perception versus reality

School choice has increased significantly in India – with growth of low-fee private schools – and this is considered important within a market-based approach to schooling. Based on a field study a...

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Pandemic as a lens: Identifying and addressing livelihood vulnerabilities

Based on the findings from a phone survey of around 5,000 Indian workers, the authors explore the impact of the Covid-19 economic lockdown on two forms of livelihood vulnerabilities: employment insecu...

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in poverty measures in India?

Poverty measurement at the household level assumes that the poverty status of all household members, irrespective of age and gender, is the same as that of the household. This column presents a frame...

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