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I4I Team 
09 February, 2022
- Editors Corner
Content Type: Editors Corner
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2022
Reimagining Indian federalism in the climate crisis
Climate change is an increasingly urgent problem for India, as for all countries. In this post, Pillai et al. contend that addressing the issue requires reimagining Indian federalism, as the Indian Constitution gives states a crucial role in several arenas of climate action. They propose a new appro...
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Aditya Valiathan Pillai Navroz K. Dubash Parth Bhatia
- 07 February, 2022
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Environment
Year: 2022
Budget 2022-23: Capital gains tax, and asset-price stability
Although there is a need to ensure asset-price stability, the 2022-23 Budget has left the capital gains tax on equity investment unchanged. In this post, Gurbachan Singh examines the idea of a tax as a wedge in maintaining asset-price stability, how the capital gains tax creates constraints in this ...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 04 February, 2022
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2022
Mind the tone: Text analysis of Monetary Policy Committee statements
Government of India appoints three external members on the six-member Monetary Policy Committee, and the statements of all MPC members are released after every committee meeting. Based on data from 30 MPC meetings conducted between October 2016 and August 2021, this article shows that the statement ...
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Jalaj Pathak Vidya Mahambare
- 31 January, 2022
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2022
Improving public service delivery by fixing payment systems
Fixing how funds flow through the government systems grabs far fewer headlines than malnutrition, problems in the education sector, or crumbling infrastructure. In this post, Charity Troyer Moore contends that payment systems are fundamental to improving these development outcomes, and challenges to...
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Charity Troyer Moore
- 28 January, 2022
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2021
Covid-19 and long-term poverty: Evidence from rural Rajasthan
Based on preliminary calculations, it is being reported that 77-220 million have fallen into poverty in India on account of Covid-19, with the poor now accounting for 60% of urban, and 70% of rural residents. Based on a 2021 follow-up to a 2002 survey conducted in rural Rajasthan, this article shows...
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Anirudh Krishna Tushar Agrawal
- 27 January, 2022
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2022
Gender difference in mathematics learning in rural India
A growing body of evidence in developed countries has indicated that female disadvantage prevails and persists in mathematics learning outcomes, with the likely causes being social factors, cultural norms, teacher bias, and parental attitudes, among others. Using nationally representative data from ...
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Karan Singhal Upasak Das
- 24 January, 2022
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2022
India’s new National Water Policy: A paradigm shift
In 2019, the Ministry of Jal Shakti set up a committee of independent experts – led by Dr Mihir Shah – to draft a new National Water Policy. To examine the recommendations made by the Committee, Ashwini Kulkarni speaks with Mihir Shah, beginning with a discussion of the key issues constituting t...
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Ashwini Kulkarni Mihir Shah
- 20 January, 2022
- Videos
Content Type: Videos
Topic: Governance
Year: 2022
India’s new National Water Policy: A paradigm shift
In 2019, the Ministry of Jal Shakti set up a committee of independent experts – led by Dr Mihir Shah – to draft a new National Water Policy. To examine the recommendations made by the Committee, Ashwini Kulkarni speaks with Mihir Shah, beginning with a discussion of the key issues constituting t...
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Ashwini Kulkarni Mihir Shah
- 20 January, 2022
- Podcasts
Content Type: Podcasts
Topic: Governance
Year: 2022
Who benefits from indoor piped drinking water supply? A gender analysis
In India, there is limited access to indoor piped drinking water (IPDW) in households, and this has a disproportionate impact on women as they bear the burden of fetching water. Using 2005-2012 India Human Development Survey data, this article shows that household access to IPDW can help reduce gend...
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Ashish Sedai
- 17 January, 2022
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2022
Evaluating the risks in opening up the banking sector
The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has accepted some of the key recommendations of the Internal Working Group (IWG) to Review Extant Ownership Guidelines and Corporate Structure for Indian Private Sector Banks and provided some leeway for new entrants in the banking sector. In this post, K Srinivasa Ra...
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K. Srinivasa Rao
- 14 January, 2022
- Perspectives
Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2022
Economic development, the nutrition trap, and metabolic disease
Two recently documented facts run counter to the conventional wisdom that economic development leads to better health: the absence of a clear link between income and nutritional status in developing countries; and the increased prevalence of metabolic disease, among normal individuals, that is, thos...
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Anu Mary Oommen Kaivan Munshi Nancy Luke Swapnil Singh
- 10 January, 2022
- Articles
Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021