Helping the poor to save
Do poor people save? This column portrays the saving and financial behaviours and preferences of the poor. It recommends designing and marketing savings products that address the constraints they currently face.
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Deepti KC Mudita Tiwari Parul Agarwal 
23 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2013
US-China relations: Role reversal will slow climate change
This column proposes a new approach to climate change that involves China, and eventually other developing countries, offering inducements to the West to take steps to foster a private-sector led green technology revolution.
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Aaditya Mattoo Arvind Subramanian
- 23 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2013
Capital controls in India: Did they work?
Are capital controls the right way to manage an economy? This column looks at what we can learn from India’s experience, where capital controls have never been fully dismantled.
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Ajay Shah Ila Patnaik
- 21 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Does political reservation for women improve programme delivery?
This column outlines results of a study that assesses the impact of women leaders on corruption and other aspects of the quality of delivery of MNREGA. It argues that administrative experience, training and institutional support are essential for making women’s political participation and affirmat...
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Farzana Afridi
- 17 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
India's missing women by age and state
This column presents results of a study that breaks down “missing women” by age across the Indian states. It illustrates that Indian women face the risk of excess mortality at every stage of their lives, and attempts to explain excess female deaths in India after birth.
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Debraj Ray Siwan Anderson
- 11 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2013
Helping India's informal manufacturing sector to grow
India’s informal manufacturing sector is dominated by small household enterprises that keep everything within the family – but these firms are often the least productive. Why aren’t these small enterprises making the changes needed to bloom and grow? This column asks whether the problem is acc...
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Kunal Sen
- 09 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2013
Creating entrepreneurs: A big new idea in development
Can the world’s poorest people become entrepreneurs? This column outlines results from an evaluation of the Ultra Poor programme in Bangladesh, a scheme that the NGO behind it claims is a staggering success.
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Imran Rasul Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess
- 07 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2013
How to motivate India's community workers?
People who work on-the-ground are essential to India’s development effort. But how to get these teachers, health workers and so on to work hard when money is tight? This column argues that there are other ways to motivate community workers that aren’t being used to their full potential - and the...
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Nava Ashraf
- 04 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Economic policy agenda for India in 2013
What should the priorities be for economic policymakers in India in the coming year? This column emphasises the need for greater transparency, and improved governance and regulation for reviving economic growth in 2013.
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Dilip Mookherjee
- 02 January, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
Understanding India's monetary policy
From the outside looking in, it may seem that India’s central bank is making up its own rules, making it difficult to predict the next movements in the interest rate. This column argues that the central bank is in fact following a rule, you just have to look hard enough.
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Nirvikar Singh Rajeswari Sengupta
- 21 December, 2012
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
Cash Transfers - through the postal system or the banks?
The central government has announced the conversion of 29 poverty schemes to Direct Cash Transfers. Should this be implemented through banks or the postal system? This article assesses the pros and cons, and recommends experimenting with different systems.
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Ashwini Kulkarni
- 20 December, 2012
- Notes from the Field
Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2012
What will South Asia look like in 2025?
What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? This column argues that a growth miracle can quickly turn in to a growth disaster. It asks what can be done today to reshape tomorrow.
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Ejaz Ghani
- 19 December, 2012
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012