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Collective action for environmental health: Evidence from sanitation in rural India

Access to and sustained use of improved household latrines have long been both a challenge as well as a policy priority in India, particularly in rural areas. Recognising the importance of social mechanisms that underlie household sanitation choices, this article utilises experimental games conducte...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

Inflation targeting and capital flows

Current law in India mandates a review of the target inflation rate by 31 March 2021 for a five-year period. Several critics have called for abandoning the flexible inflation targeting regime altogether. In this post, Gurbachan Singh shows that flexible inflation targeting can accentuate the problem...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Macroeconomics
Year: 2021

Does non-farm growth in rural areas reduce intergenerational educational mobility?

While the growth of the non-farm sector in a rural economy is known to reduce poverty, it may also exacerbate inequality. Comparing rural India and rural China the study finds that there is lower intergenerational education mobility in the former. Farmers’ sons in India attain higher schooling rel...

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Content Type: Articles
Topic: Human Development
Year: 2021

I4I 2020 highlights: Note from the Editor-in-Chief

As we near the end of 2020, Editor-in-chief Ashok Kotwal reflects on the unprecedented and momentous year that was, and presents key highlights from I4I.

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Miscellany
Year: 2020

DRAMA at the farm gate

Describing the new ‘APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) Bypass Act’ as a ‘Dual Regulation of Agricultural Marketing Act’ or DRAMA, Jean Drèze argues that the legislation's odd framework of dual control by the central and state governments is unlikely to serve farmers' interests.

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

National Farmers’ Day

23 December is observed as National Farmers’ Day, to celebrate the contribution and importance of farmers to the Indian economy. This page presents selected I4I content – posted over time – on issues that affect the lives of farmers, and related IGC (International Growth Centre) India research...

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

Webinar video: Navigating Covid-19 impact on agriculture supply chains

In October 2020, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) and Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) organised a webinar on ‘Navigating the Impact of Covid-19 on the Agriculture Supply Chain in India’. The panel comprised N. Saravana Kumar (Secretary, Agriculture Departm...

  • Videos

Content Type: Videos
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

Agricultural worker exits and crop fires

While the process of moving workers from low- to high-productivity sectors is considered critical for economic development, its environmental impact remains largely unexplored. This article shows that the exit of workers from agriculture, enabled by access to rural roads, induces farmers to use fire...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

Farm laws: Reform needed but not at expense of small farmers

Commenting on the controversial farm laws, Kaushik Basu and Nirvikar Singh contend that the government should withdraw these laws, return to the drafting table, engage with farmers and states, and incorporate safeguards for the well-being of small farmers.

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

Reducing the flow of plastic to oceans in India

Growing consumer demands are causing the generation of colossal amounts of plastic waste, and the poor state of waste management implies that large proportions of this litter is making its way into the oceans. Based on an exploratory study across India in 2019 – with focus on ‘hotspots’ in Che...

  • Notes from the Field

Content Type: Notes from the Field
Topic: Environment
Year: 2020

Farm laws: Resolving the deadlock

In a recent Indian Express article, Bharat Ramaswami has proposed some rather provocative suggestions on how the present crisis triggered by the farmers’ protests can be resolved. In this post, Ramaswami elaborates on those views in an interview with Ashok Kotwal (Editor-in-Chief, Ideas for India)

  • Perspectives

Content Type: Perspectives
Topic: Agriculture
Year: 2020

Combating corruption and illicit outflows: A welfare-oriented approach

A discussion of the association between corruption in economies and leakage through illicit outward flows – with important implications for welfare – is missing in the literature. Based on a theoretical framework, this article analyses how policies for controlling corruption, such as the licensi...

  • Articles

Content Type: Articles
Topic: Governance
Year: 2020