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Understanding Slum Formation and Designing an Urban Housing Policy for Poor in Bihar
This project identifies the spatial pattern of the urban poor living in slums of four districts of Bihar. It also identified direct and indirect determinants of their settlement locations and understa...
- Abhinav Alakshendra
- 31 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Adaptation to persistent drought and groundwater depletion: Evidence from Karnataka
By using a random sample of households from the 2004 KSNDMC study, this project conducts a comparative study of households’ coping capacity to two prolonged, 3-year droughts occurring a decade apart, ...
- Ram Fishman V.S. Prakash K. V. Raju
- 28 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Why is Assam left behind in India's economic boom? A behavioural perspective on the effect of conflict
In addition to having deep, persistent socioeconomic costs, civil conflict can profoundly change individual beliefs, values, and preferences. This project seeks to analyse why Assam – a state where in...
- Dipanwita Sarkar
- 28 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Identifying an effective teacher in public schools in Delhi
While there is near universal school enrolment among 6-14 year olds in India, learning levels are abysmally low. In this context, this project looks at senior secondary government schools in Delhi to ...
- Bidisha Barooah Deepti Goel
- 26 December, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Economics among the road scholars
Jholawala Economics’ is a derogatory term that the urban elites use to dismiss the arguments of social activists without having to contend with them. However, some of the jholawalas are indeed first-r...
- Jean Drèze
- 22 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Why governments across the globe are cracking down on civic organisations
Dupuy, Ron and Prakash content that NGOs need to generate resources from the communities they serve. This will make them accountable to these communities and enhance their legitimacy, and incentivise ...
- Kendra Dupuy Aseem Prakash James Ron
- 21 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Achieving universal health coverage in India: Inefficiency is the problem, not money
India has been widely criticised for having one of the world’s lowest public spending on health. In this article, Kanchan Mukherjee contends that even with this minimal expenditure it is possible to a...
- Kanchan Mukherjee
- 19 December, 2017
- Perspectives
The challenge of job creation
The process of economic transformation that entails labour transitioning from low- to high-productivity activities, been much slower in India than in other Asian countries like China. Why is this so ...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 15 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Waiting for jobs
Assessing the extent of job creation in India is constrained by lack of comprehensive, real-time employment data. This column presents statistics from a detailed analysis of multiple data sources and ...
- Radhicka Kapoor
- 14 December, 2017
- Articles
Is small beautiful? A critical evaluation of MSME policy and performance in India
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have significance in a labour-abundant country like India, and various policies are in place to promote the sector. Analysing MSME data from various sources...
- Shromona Ganguly
- 12 December, 2017
- Articles
Bubble in bitcoin or elsewhere?
The price of Bitcoin has skyrocketed. Gurbachan Singh contends that there may or may not be a bubble in cryptocurrencies. If there is a bubble, then the prices will fall eventually, and the story will...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 11 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Structural transformation and spillovers from ‘Industrial Areas’
A defining feature of economic development is the reallocation of labour from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing. To shed light on this process, this column analyses Karnataka’s Industrial Areas...
- David Blakeslee Ritam Chaurey Ram Fishman Samreen Malik
- 07 December, 2017
- Articles