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National Health Stack: A job half well-done
To support the implementation of the recently launched National Health Protection Scheme, NITI Aayog has proposed the creation of digital infrastructure called National Health Stack. In this post, Smr...
- Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 10 September, 2018
- Perspectives
How retail drug markets in poor countries develop
We need effective, affordable medicines to confront the alarming burden of infectious diseases in the developing world. However, many of the drugs for sale in developing countries are of poor quality....
- Daniel Bennett Wes Yin
- 07 September, 2018
- Articles
Are Indian girls more educated than their mothers?
While intergenerational educational mobility of father-son pairs in India has been documented to some extent, there is negligible analysis on how daughters compare to their mothers in terms of educati...
- Ashish Singh
- 05 September, 2018
- Articles
Understanding India’s energy and emissions future
India is an important player in global climate change mitigation, and it is crucial to understand its energy and emissions future. Projections for India’s 2030 CO2 emissions from energy range from 9% ...
- Ankit Bhardwaj Navroz K. Dubash Radhika Khosla
- 04 September, 2018
- Articles
Community networks and the growth of private enterprise in China
China has witnessed the same degree of industrialisation in three decades as Europe did in two centuries – without the preconditions that are generally believed to be necessary for economic developmen...
- Ruochen Dai Dilip Mookherjee Kaivan Munshi Xiaobo Zhang
- 31 August, 2018
- Articles
Maternal health services utilisation: Has the rich-poor gap declined?
Various studies have noted that vast inequalities – economic and socio-demographic – exist in maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes and utilisation of care services. In this post, Sohini Paul e...
- Sohini Paul
- 29 August, 2018
- Perspectives
Designing India’s national healthcare protection: Challenges and opportunities
The burden of non-communicable diseases, requiring costly hospital-based treatment, is increasing in India, and only 15% of the population has health insurance coverage. The Modi government recently i...
- Sisir Debnath Tarun Jain Dibya Mishra Revathy Suryanarayana
- 27 August, 2018
- Perspectives
Do property rights exacerbate son preference?
While land reform has been shown to have benefits like increased agricultural productivity and access to credit, not much attention has been devoted to investigating its impact on gender inequality wi...
- Sonia Bhalotra Abhishek Chakravarty Dilip Mookherjee Francesco J. Pino
- 24 August, 2018
- Articles
The challenge of identifying economic activities of firms
The reliability of India’s GDP estimates has been debated extensively. A key challenge in the construction of macro-aggregates lies in the proper identification of firms’ economic activities as firms ...
- Radhika Pandey Amey Sapre Pramod Sinha
- 23 August, 2018
- Perspectives
How sanitation facilities in schools can improve educational outcomes
The Indian government launched the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education programme in 1999 to build latrines in schools. Analysing data from nearly 140,000 schools in 2003 - some of which received a...
- Anjali Adukia
- 20 August, 2018
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Expected income support and child health
Government of India’s maternity support programme – Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana – seeks to provide income support to pregnant women and lactating mothers in rural India. Evaluating the program...
- Prabhat P. Ghosh Anjini Kochar
- 17 August, 2018
- Articles
Climate change and Indian agriculture
Indian agriculture remains vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, and the looming threat of climate change may expose this vulnerability further. This article presents findings from a study that uses ...
- Siddharth Hari Parth Khare Arvind Subramanian
- 16 August, 2018
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