India's five-year plan-what's the big deal?
‘Faster, inclusive, and more sustainable growth’ is the defining motto of India’s latest economic plan. But how will it work? This column outlines the five big ideas in India’s Five-Year Plan.
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Varad Pande 
17 December, 2012
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
The impacts of linking NREGA payments to UID. A Study of Maharashtra
This project attempts to measure the impact of Universal Identification (UID)-linked wage payments on corruption in public works projects funded under MNREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).
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Ashok Kotwal Ashwini Kulkarni Bharat Ramaswami Siwan Anderson
- 15 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2012
Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme on Intra-Household Allocation of Labour
This project focusses on the impact of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) on the labour market through studying its impact on intra-household allocation of labour, particularly between private and public employment. It also investigates how MNREGA affects the agricultural sector, an...
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Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
- 15 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2012
Quantitative Baseline Assessment of Child Nutritional Status and Performance of ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme in Bihar
There are no easy solutions guaranteed to reduce leakage and increase the provision of nutritious food to Bihar’s millions of malnourished children and mothers. The quantitative assessment in this project was a first step that provides evidence of what the sources of leakage and areas of concern a...
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Andrew Fraker Neil Buddy Shah Ronald Abraham
- 15 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2012
Eliminating Delhi's November smog
Around this time every year, the air in Delhi becomes almost unbearable. As politicians and the press point fingers, this column offers up a happy solution.
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E. Somanathan Ridhima Gupta
- 14 December, 2012
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2012
For the New Year
Five months ago we launched this portal to start new conversations on issues of vital importance for Indian growth and development. We had hoped that by making serious research accessible to lay people we could help elevate the level of public debate. The time has come to assess our progress – wh...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 12 December, 2012
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2012
Political reservation in India: The effect on poverty
Over the last 60 years, India’s Constitution has set aside seats in parliament for people from historically discriminated groups, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This column documents one of the first studies to quantify the effects of this policy on poverty. It finds that while more po...
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Nishith Prakash
- 10 December, 2012
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2012
A Novel, Market Based Mechanism to Incentivize Efficient Groundwater/Energy use in Indian Agriculture – Setting Up a Field Experiment in Gujarat
This project documents patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in northern Gujarat in India. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, this study assesses the multifactoral drivers of ...
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Anjal Prakash Avinash Kishore Meha Jain Ram Fishman
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2012
Potato Traders in West Bengal: A Survey of Contractual Relations and Market Structure
This study consists of a pilot survey of a random subset of phorias (middlemen) and larger traders who operate in 72 villages of West Medinipur and Hugli districts in West Bengal and their corresponding potato markets.
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Alberto Motta Dilip Mookherjee Pushkar Maitra Sandip Mitra Sujata Visaria
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Trade
Year: 2012
JNNURM: An Opportunity for Environmentally Sustainable Urbanisation
This project undertakes an analysis of the sustainability of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), the largest chunk of public sector funding channeled into urban India till date.
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Kavita Wankhade
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Urbanisation
Year: 2012
How Important are credit constraints for small firm growth?
This project focusses on the role of financial constraints in determining the lack of transition of firms from the very small family firms (OAMEs) which are the predominant type of firms in the informal sector to the larger firms that employ non-family labour (DMEs and NDMEs).
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Kunal Sen
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2012
Improving Child Health and Schooling
This project collected information on whether the child received a health report card (and checkup), as well as attendance data for that child for each month of the school year. Combining this with information on the month of the school visit by the Public Health Centre team, the project assess whet...
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Anjini Kochar Prabhat P. Ghosh
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2012