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Import competition, formalisation, and role of contract workers

Given the recent expansion in the participation of developing countries in global trade, it is important to understand the role of trade in the composition of employment in these countries. Analysing the case of Indian manufacturing and Chinese imports, this article shows that import competition lea...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Trade
Year: 2021

Challenges of solid waste management: The case of Patna city

Rapid urbanisation with insufficient planning has led to problems of solid waste management in several Indian cities. In this note, Uma Sarmistha discusses preliminary findings from a field study in the city of Patna in Bihar state, which examines the present state of waste management processes, as ...

  • Notes from the Field

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

Covid-19 and schooling: 2020 experience and way forward

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic brought with it significant challenges for the education sector. On the one hand, closing schools meant imposing a heavy cost on a whole generation of students, and on the other hand, keeping schools open was a health hazard. India and several other developing coun...

  • Videos

Content Type: Videos
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

International Day of Education

24 January is observed by the United Nations as the International Day of Education, to highlight the importance of education for sustainable development and to promote universal, equitable, and inclusive education. The 2021 theme is “Recover and revitalize education for the Covid-19 generation”,...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers

Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of about 4,000 households in slum areas in Uttar Pradesh, this article shows that recorded phone messages ...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Evaluating inflation targeting in India

In March 2021, India will complete five years since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by the government and RBI. Analysing inflation data since 1996 using alternative models, this article argues that the ‘output gap model’ that underlies the current regime is not the best descrip...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2021

Employment entry and exit by women in India

While India’s low female labour force participation has been studied extensively in the recent literature, an aspect that has received insufficient attention is the dynamic nature of employment – that is, individuals enter and exit the workforce at various points in time. Analysing India Human D...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?

While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from the first ever, large-scale quantitative measurement of intra-village spatial segregation in India, b...

  • Articles

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

Covid-19 spread: Does social and economic diversity matter?

Arresting the spread of Covid-19 requires collective action by communities, which is likely to be more challenging in settings with high diversity. Using district-level data from India, this article examines the effects of caste and religious fragmentation and economic inequality, on the growth rate...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Social Identity
Year: 2021

Declining common lands in India: Role of economic inequality

The area under common pool land resources (CPLRs), which are crucial to rural livelihoods in India, has recorded a steady decline over the last three decades. Common land is diverted either as private household assets within a village or assigned for long-term lease to individuals or corporates from...

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

Rising obesity in rural India, under the growing urban shadow

According to the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), 2015-16, nearly 20% of India’s population is obese. This article shows that the country’s obesity trends have followed the nature of its economic transformation whereby urban growth impacts rural development. It finds that an additional kilo...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice

Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnataka around the time of a wage hike, this article shows that providing workers a channel to express gri...

  • Articles

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