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How effective are unenforced mandates for corporate social responsibility?

By enacting the Companies Act in 2013, India became the first country in the world to mandate spending by large corporations on socially responsible initiatives. Using firm data from 2010 and 2016, this article shows that the Act increased expenditure levels on corporate social responsibility as wel...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2021

Webinar video: Putting farmers first

In December 2020, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) organised a webinar on ‘Putting Farmers First’. The panel comprised Siraj Hussain (Senior Visiting Fellow, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relation...

  • Videos

Content Type: Videos
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2021

Leaders and citizens: Women’s political participation in India

Women’s political participation has emerged as a key element of the discourse around the upcoming state elections in India. In this post, Nalini Gulati and Ella Spencer explore the evidence on various aspects of women’s political engagement in the country – representation in government, women ...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

De-globalisation driven by global crises

Concerns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic have led to new rationales of protectionism, with renewed emphasis on domestic production and sourcing. In this post, Assaf Razin compares the current economic crisis brought on by the pandemic to previous major economic crises, and examines what this c...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2021

Energy access for marginalised communities: Evidence from rural India

While overall energy access of Indian households has improved rapidly over the past decade, access to clean fuel is still low as compared to electricity. Besides, social structures and hierarchies continue to substantially influence rural development processes in the country. Using data from a house...

  • Articles

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

Are moneylenders financial intermediaries?

A majority of borrowing in rural households in developing countries is from informal lenders. This article examines the relationship between these informal lenders and banks in rural India, from the early 2000s onwards. It shows that informal moneylenders rely on credit from banks to ease their own ...

  • Articles

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

The digital dream: Upskilling India for the future

While the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace at which technology is becoming commonplace in our lives, it has also exposed a stark digital divide, leaving a large proportion of India’s population out of this paradigm shift. Using 2017-18 National Sample Survey data, Mumtaz and Mothkoor hig...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2021

Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes

Studies have found positive effects of teacher-student gender matching on students’ learning outcomes in certain countries. Based on a theoretical model – tested empirically with survey data from Andhra Pradesh – this article shows that the positive effect in the Indian context seems to be a c...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

When criminality begets crime: The role of elected politicians

The criminalisation of politics has become a massive threat to society. While the impact of criminally accused leaders on economic outcomes has been studied in the literature, little is known about their effect on the crime environment of the jurisdiction. Analysing data from India for 2009-2018, th...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Governance
Year: 2021

Covid-19: How well are government schemes supporting Bihar’s vulnerable populations?

The immediate adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown was visibly greater for migrant workers and their households, whose ability to access government schemes in their villages of origin was uncertain. Analysing data from a survey in rural Bihar in June-July 2020, Sarin et al...

  • Notes from the Field

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

Social identity, health networks, and health knowledge

Health knowledge, driven by education, is a critical factor for the achievement of good health outcomes. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development Survey 2004-05, this article examines how knowledge regarding fluid intake for children with diarrhoea is created, and whether caste/religious aff...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

Matter of mobility: Barriers to women’s work and education, and the dangers at home

As countries across the world implemented lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, both women and men have been largely confined to their homes but with differential impacts. In this post, Nikita Sharma discusses the pre-pandemic restrictions on the mobility of women in India – on account of ...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021