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Did Covid-19 pandemic increase incidence of low-birth-weight among newborns?

Globally, one in four babies are born with low birth weight, with long-term impacts on health and economic outcomes. This article uses Indian data from 2019-2021 to analyse the impact of the Covid-19 ...

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Beneath the colours: Unveiling Holi's impact on violence against women

While social norms are considered important to the issue of violence against women (VAW), there is little research on how norms impact VAW in public places. Analysing police data from Bihar, this arti...

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India’s massive employment problem and some ways out

In the recent announcement of India’s Union Budget 2024-25, significant emphasis was placed on the need for job creation. In this post, Pranab Bardhan presents a four-pronged strategy for the sustaina...

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Advancing evidence-based tiger conservation

In the world’s most populated nation, natural landscapes are dramatically and rapidly being altered by human enterprise. In this context, Pranav Chanchani advocates for data-driven policymaking to sus...

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शिक्षकों का विश्वास कैसे प्रेरणा और छात्रों के सीखने को आकार दे सकता है

शिक्षक का प्रयास छात्रों के सीखने के लिए महत्वपूर्ण है, जबकि साक्ष्य दर्शाते हैं कि शिक्षक स्वयं ऐसा नहीं मानते हैं। इस लेख में शिक्षकों पर लक्षित मनो-सामाजिक हस्तक्षेप से जुड़े एक यादृच्छिक प्रयोग से...

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Managing human-wildlife conflict in the Sundarbans

Besides being home to uniquely adapted tigers, the Sundarbans are a source of livelihood for the human population in the region. In this post, Danda and Mukhopadhyay discuss the nature of human-wildli...

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Introduction to e-Symposium: Tiger conservation in India

Despite a recent upward trend in tiger populations in India, the tiger remains on the endangered species list. Saving the tiger, therefore, is not a fait accompli but a continuous struggle that must b...

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Tiger conservation in a changing climate

The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh – the only mangrove tiger habitat – is a top priority for global tiger conservation. Discussing the extreme climate vulnerability of the region, Anamitra Anurag ...

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पंजाब का आर्थिक विकास : सम्भावनाएँ और नीतियाँ

वर्ष 2000 तक उत्तर भारतीय राज्य पंजाब देश में प्रति-व्यक्ति आय रैंकिंग में शीर्ष पर था, उसके बाद से इसकी स्थिति लगातार गिरती गई है। इस लेख में लखविंदर सिंह, निर्विकार सिंह और प्रकाश सिंह ने पंजाब की अ...

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Policy Roundup: Union Budget and Economic Survey

Following the release of the latest Economic Survey of India and the first Union Budget of the new government, this Policy Roundup applies a ‘jobs’ lens to these documents – presenting key takeaways a...

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The problem of India’s stagnant real wages

New data from the Labour Bureau and the National Sample Survey Office point to a virtual stagnation of real wages in India over the past decade. In this post, Das and Drèze argue that this trend point...

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बदलते समाज में सामाजिक सुरक्षा जाल पर पुनर्विचार करना

इस लेख के सह-लेखक देबाशीष बारिक, पल्लवी चौधरी, बिजय चौहान, ओम प्रकाश शर्मा, दिनेश कुमार तिवारी (एनसीएईआर) और शरण शर्मा (मैरीलैंड कॉलेज पार्क विश्वविद्यालय और एनसीएईआर) हैं। ऐतिहासिक रूप से सामाजिक सु...

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