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Short-term illness and intra-household labour substitution

For poor, agricultural households, health shocks strain limited resources on medical expenses, and result in loss of potential productive work-days. Based on data from rural India, this article shows that an illness episode causes a 7% decline in the ill individual’s average monthly wage income. F...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Productivity & Innovation
Year: 2021

Covid-19 and growing food insecurity: Insights from rural Bihar

Emerging research shows that Covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the already undernourished and marginalised populations, by affecting their access to food and nutrition, and consumption patterns. In this note, Dutta et al. discuss findings from their field study in rural Bihar and highlight th...

  • Notes from the Field

Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

Inducing water conservation in affluent urban households

Reducing the demand for water – particularly in affluent, urban households – can lower the burden of increasing supply to ensure universal access, and sustaining it at an affordable price. Based on a field experiment in Bengaluru, this article shows that ‘habit-change’ interventions can lead...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Environment
Year: 2021

Countering violence against women with awareness creation and self-defence training

The 2019 National Crime Records Bureau report shows a 7.3% increase, compared to 2018, in violence against women, with one in three women being subject to physical, emotional, or sexual violence. In this context, Lalji et al. discuss their field study in Bihar involving an intervention to increase ...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

Spatial disparities in household earnings in India

The per-capita state domestic product of Haryana (India’s richest state) was 5.6 times that of Bihar (poorest state) in 2017-18, up from 3.8 in 1996-97. Differences in urbanisation levels and inability of poorer regions to realise agglomeration benefits, are cited as reasons for the lack of conver...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

PDS, National Food Security Act, and Covid-19

Introduced in 2013, the National Food Security Act (NFSA) brought about fundamental reforms in the public distribution system (PDS) and most importantly, declared a legal ‘right to food’. Based on a primary survey in Bihar, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh, this article traces the changes in the PDS po...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Poverty & Inequality
Year: 2021

Under the thumb of history?

In June 2021, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT) delivered the inaugural Shaibal Gupta Memorial Lecture organised by Asian Development Research Institute, broadly discussing the role of history in development economics. An important body of...

  • Podcasts

Content Type: Podcasts
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2021

Challenges faced by community health workers in Covid-19 containment efforts

Although community health workers have been the backbone of the fight against Covid-19 in India, there has not been sufficient focus on their well-being and working conditions. Based on a survey in the Bundelkhand region, among the poorest regions in India, Saha et al., examine the perspectives and ...

  • Notes from the Field

Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Impact of information disclosure on consumer behaviour: The case of high-risk bonds

In April 2021, Yes Bank was fined by India’s market regulator for inadequate information disclosure – high-risk bonds were mis-sold to high net-worth investors without accurately informing them about the associated risks and returns. Based on an online survey, this article finds that accurate in...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Money & Finance
Year: 2021

Sustainable livelihoods and resilience through community forest management

The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Rights) Act, 2006 adopts a rights-based approach to forest conservation and seeks to place local communities at the centre of forest governance. In this note, Santosh Gedam presents the case of the Pachgaon village in the sta...

  • Notes from the Field

Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Environment
Year: 2021

The power of school feeding programmes to improve nutrition

India has the world’s highest number of undernourished children and the largest school-feeding programme – the Mid-Day Meal (MDM) scheme – but limited evidence is available on the intergenerational impact of the programme. Based on data from the National Family Health Survey and National Sampl...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Foreign currency corporate borrowing: Risks and policy responses

Non-financial corporations in emerging market economies increasingly rely on foreign currency debt,and are exposed to currency depreciations and sudden stops in capital flows. Analysing data on 1,786 Indian firms during 2004-2019, this article shows that favourable global funding conditions are a mu...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2021