I4I turns 1!
It has been a year since the voice of ‘Ideas for India’ was first heard. Our mission was to be an outlet for evidence-based arguments on a wide set of issues relevant to Indian growth and development. We had hoped then that this would be a voice that would clarify rather than obscure, a distinct...
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Ashok Kotwal 
06 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
Star Wars
Debraj Ray gets to the heart of the growth versus redistribution debate and argues that a sectoral imbalance in growth is inevitable. While occupational choice is an important way to deal with this, it is slow and imprecise. Action on the part of the government may be critical to even things out.
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Debraj Ray
- 05 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
Who creates jobs?
With millions of young people entering the labour market each year, the big question is whether there will be enough jobs for them. But who actually creates these jobs? This column looks at data from India suggesting that young and small firms play a vital role. Policymakers just need to support th...
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Ejaz Ghani Stephen D O'Connell William Kerr
- 02 August, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2013
Economic growth versus social development: The spatial dimension
In the context of the economic growth versus social development debate sparked off by Bhagwati and Sen, this column argues for a more nuanced approach to assessing progress. Combining nationally representative data on expenditure and social indicators for the different states in India, it explores t...
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Ranjan Ray
- 31 July, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
I4I Panel Discussion: A conversation on Indian Development
To celebrate the first birthday of I4I, we invited eminent economists Abhijit Banerjee and Raghuram Rajan to have a conversation about vital issues in Indian development.
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Abhijit Banerjee Ashok Kotwal Raghuram Rajan
- 31 July, 2013
- Videos
Content Type: Videos
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2013
What explains the steep poverty decline in India from 2004 to 2011?
Ashok Kotwal, Editor-in-Chief, Ideas for India, interviews Pronab Sen on the recent poverty figures that show a steep decline in poverty in India between 2004 and 2011. According to him, the shift in terms of trade in favour of agriculture and higher rural wages accelerated the trickle down of the ...
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Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 29 July, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2013
Turn Right or Left? Or is there a middle way?
Dilip Mookherjee shares his perspective on the recent Bhagwati versus Sen debate. While Sen represents the pro-state-led assistance stand and Bhagwati is seen as pro-market, what India requires is the right combination of prescriptions from both camps to effectively combat poverty.
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Dilip Mookherjee
- 25 July, 2013
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2013
What constrained the expansion of education in British India?
Education and human capital development were neglected in colonial India. This column explores how colonial policies interacted with local conditions to influence the trajectory of Indian education. It finds that public spending on education was inadequate and susceptible to elite capture, and that...
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Latika Chaudhary
- 22 July, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2013
Foreign investors under stress: Evidence from India
Emerging market policymakers are concerned about the effects of foreign portfolio flows on financial stability. This column focuses on the behaviour of investors in extreme events, allowing for the possibility that what happens under stressed market conditions may differ from day-to-day outcomes. Th...
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Ajay Shah Ila Patnaik Nirvikar Singh
- 19 July, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2013
Micro-innovations in education
The poor quality of school teachers is widely acknowledged as a major obstacle to the educational success of children from low income families. STIR Education visited and spoke to over 3,000 teachers in government and affordable private schools in New Delhi and compiled a list of replicable micro-...
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James Townsend Sharath Jeevan
- 17 July, 2013
- Notes from the Field
Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2013
Vocational education: A means to an end?
Youth underemployment, especially among less educated populations perpetuates poverty. Despite the importance of youth unemployment, there is little knowledge on how to create smooth school-to-work transition and or how to improve the human capital of those who can no longer be sent back to school. ...
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Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani
- 15 July, 2013
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2013
A success story from Keonjhar
The final narrative in our three part series on what development means to real women comes from Keonjhar in Odisha. In spite of facing deprivation and setbacks early in life, today Basanti Naik successfully oversees the implementation of MNREGA projects in her village. Her life gives a very positive...
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Chandrasekhar Bhuyan
- 12 July, 2013
- Notes from the Field
Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2013