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The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India

Health outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the long-term cons...

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Gender, electoral competition, and sanitation in India

The negative impact of poor sanitation is more pronounced for women than men and therefore, women have a stronger desire to improve sanitation. Analysing district-level data from 15 major Indian state...

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ASER 2018: Behind the headlines

Thanks to more than a decade of Annual Status of Education Reports (ASER), the main headlines from the surveys are widely known – the learning levels of Indian school going children are worryingly low...

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Learning to cooperate in a culture of honour

In many parts of the world, we observe persistent dysfunction in learning to cooperate around common interests. Cultural differences – ideas of what constitutes an insult and what an appropriate respo...

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किसकी शिक्षा मायने रखती है? भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों का एक विश्लेषण

वर्ष 2011 में भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों की दर 5.82 प्रतिशत के निम्न स्तर पर थी और पिछले चार दशकों के दौरान इसमें कोई वृद्धि का रुझान नहीं दिखा है। इस आलेख में भारत में अंतर्जातीय विवाहों और शिक्षा क...

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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?

India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it creatin...

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Everything you know about cross-country convergence is (now) wrong

A quarter-century after the empirical growth literature set out to explain why poor countries are not catching up with rich ones, cross-country regressions have mercifully gone out of fashion. In this...

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The changing task content of jobs in India

The ongoing wave of technological revolution across the globe is set to fundamentally change the way goods are produced and services are delivered. Using a task-based framework, this article seeks to ...

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अंतरिम बजट 2019: तेजी से बढ़ती अर्थव्यवस्था में बढ़ता राजकोषीय घाटा?

इस लेख में राजेस्वरी सेनगुप्ता ने हाल ही में घोषित केंद्रीय अंतरिम बजट की विभिन्न बारीकियों का विश्लेषण किया है जिनमें राजकोषीय सुदृढ़ीकरण के लक्षित मार्ग से भटकाव शामिल है। आधार से जुड़े बैंक खातों क...

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Child height in India: New data, familiar challenges

Children in India are among the shortest in the world. This article uses the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) data to examine the complexity and diversity of child height in the country. It find...

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अन्य धर्मों को गंभीरता से लेना: भारत में हिंदुओं का तुलनात्मक सर्वे

जहां पिछले कुछ दशकों में राजनीति विज्ञान में धर्म का अध्ययन अनुसंधान के बढ़ते क्षेत्र के रूप में फिर से उभरा है, वहीं अधिकांश रिसर्च में अभी भी यहूदी, ईसाई, और इस्लाम पर फोकस किया जाता है। धर्म क्या ह...

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Can Rahul Gandhi’s minimum income guarantee proposal work?

Congress president Rahul Gandhi has promised a minimum income guarantee scheme for the poor if the party is voted to power in the upcoming elections. Discussing the proposal and associated concerns, P...

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