Monkeying with the rupee
In this article, Debraj Ray discusses the sharp depreciation of the rupee and the ongoing outflow of foreign capital from India. Further, he refutes claims that the costs associated with the Food Security Bill are having a negative impact on the Indian currency.
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Debraj Ray 
04 September, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Choosing to be trained: Behavioural restrictions on participation decisions
Widespread unemployment has prompted policymakers to consider introduction of various training programmes that can help workers accumulate additional skills to obtain new jobs and/ or retain current ones. However, these programmes can only help if targeted individuals take up such opportunities. Th...
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Lata Gangadharan Pushkar Maitra Samyukta Subramanian Subha Mani Utteeyo Dasgupta
- 02 September, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Litigation over Eminent Domain Compensation
In the recent past, use of Eminent Domain to acquire land for developmental purposes has become highly controversial. Several parts of India have experienced violent protests against the compulsory acquisition of land.
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Ram Singh
- 01 September, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
On tackling child malnutrition
Is it the lack of information on nutrition given to mothers, or the lack of child care worker motivation that makes child malnutrition persist? This column cites results from a study undertaken in the slums of Chandigarh in North India to investigate this question. The findings suggest that that of...
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Prakarsh Singh
- 30 August, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2013
Correct costs of the Food Security Bill
In a recent article, Surjit Bhalla has asserted that the Food Security Bill will increase costs of food grain subsidy by 336%. Correcting errors in his calculation brings this figure down to 18%. In this article, the authors explain the errors and present the correct cost figures of the Bill.
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Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami Milind Murugkar
- 28 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
Caste and entrepreneurship in India
It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in their entrepreneurial activity? This column seeks to answer this question by analysing comprehensive data on enterprise ownership in India. It is found that Scheduled Castes and Sc...
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Ashutosh Varshney Lakshmi Iyer Tarun Khanna
- 26 August, 2013
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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2013
Is there public support for higher electricity prices in India?
Even though India´s power sector does not generate enough electricity to meet the rapidly growing demand, policymakers hesitate to increase tariffs due to popular opposition. This column discusses results from a survey experiment in rural Uttar Pradesh that shows that providing people with informa...
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Johannes Urpelainen
- 23 August, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Why are children in India so short?
Several scholars across disciplines provide converging evidence of the key role of open defecation in explaining child stunting in India. This column summarises the key themes of a recent conference at the Delhi School of Economics on child height in India.
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Sangita Vyas
- 19 August, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2013
Combating gender imbalance through legislation
The rapid decline in the sex ratio in India over the past few decades is an artefact of the historically strong preference for sons over daughters. To address the problem, the Indian government passed an Act in 1994 that prohibited sex selection. While the general perception is that the Act was not ...
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Anil Deolalikar Arindam Nandi
- 16 August, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2013
Assessment of MGNREGA Divas
The project was carried out at the request of Rural Development Department (RDD) in Bihar to better understand whether MNREGA Divas (MD) visits are happening as frequently as prescribed and aslo assessing the quality of these visits. The findings of the project recommends that RDD reduce the expecte...
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IDinsight Research
- 16 August, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Content Type: IGC Research on India
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
Getting India wrong
In this article, Partha Dasgupta argues that deliberations on economic development, as in the recently published books by Bhagwati-Panagariya and Dreze-Sen respectively, are of little instrumental use if they ignore the role that high population growth and environmental destruction play in the persi...
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Partha Dasgupta
- 12 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
The National Food Security Ordinance: Five misconceptions
The National Food Security Ordinance was promulgated in July 2013. The public debate that ensued, especially the criticism in the business media, has tended to be either devoid of facts or factually incorrect. This article attempts to correct the terms of the debate with relevant facts.
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Reetika Khera
- 07 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013