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How movies impact stigma and choice: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry

Recently educational entertainment is emerging as a platform for addressing public health issues. In this article, Aggarwal, Chakrabarti, and Chatterjee investigate whether movies can destigmatise acc...

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Keeping development at the forefront of India’s long-term climate strategy

India’s Long Term Low Emissions Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) sets out multiple low-carbon transitions, highlighting that climate action will be intimately tied to developmental processes. In this ar...

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अस्पताल की जवाबदेही में सुधार हेतु मरीज़ों को जानकारी देकर सशक्त बनाना

समूचे भारत में गरीबों के लिए मुफ्त स्वास्थ्य सेवा में विस्तार होने के बावजूद, कई अस्पतालों ने मरीज़ों की जेब से फीस लेना जारी रखा है। डुपास और जैन ने अपने अध्ययन में, इस बात की जांच की है कि क्या मरीज़ो...

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Institutionalising social audits: Lessons from Meghalaya

Sidharth Santhosh summarises key findings from Meghalaya's experience of mandating social auditing for welfare schemes, including the need for stronger coalitions between citizens and the state, and g...

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Unpacking how MSMEs are defined in India’s manufacturing and services sector

The Indian government announced a number of reforms to help micro, small and medium enterprises that had been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic – including changes in how an MSMEs are classified. Rahu...

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Nutritional penalty of motherhood: Can midday meals for children also improve their mothers’ health outcomes?

Midday meals provide a nutritional safety net for children and improve their learning outcomes and attendance. Nikita Sharma argues that spillover benefits might also exist for mothers of the children...

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सरकारी नौकरियों के संदर्भ में अत्यधिक प्रतिस्पर्धा की लागत

भारतीय राज्यों में सार्वजनिक सेवाओं में भर्ती हेतु अत्यधिक प्रतिस्पर्धी परीक्षाएं होती हैं जहाँ इन सरकारी रिक्तियों के लिए प्रतिस्पर्धा करते हुए कई युवा लंबे समय तक बेरोजगार रहते हैं। कुणाल मंगल तमिलन...

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Is the RBI’s commitment to inflation targeting credible?

Eight years after the adoption of Flexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) by the RBI, Garga, Lakdawala and Sengupta evaluate the success of this framework. They use two approaches to assess the credibility...

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UPI: A game changer towards achieving a cashless economy

Since the launch of the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), the volume of digital transactions in India has increased exponentially over the last few years. Shamim Ara highlights the trends in the expans...

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भारत में हिंदुओं और मुसलमानों के प्रजनन दर में अंतर: एक अपडेट

पिछले शोध के आधार पर सास्वत घोष और पल्लबी दास एनएफएचएस के नवीनतम दौर के आंकड़ों का उपयोग करते हुए हिंदुओं और मुसलमानों के बीच के राज्य और जिला स्तर की प्रजनन क्षमता में अंतर का अनुमान लगाते हैं। वे दर्...

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Access to clean drinking water and women’s safety in India

In this study, Sekhri and Hossain use district-level data to find empirical evidence that groundwater scarcity results in an increase in sexual violence against women. They argue that in households wi...

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Foundational learning outcomes: More recovery than loss

Sharing data from the recently released ASER 2022, Wilima Wadhwa discusses the trends in primary school enrollment and learning during the pandemic. Using data collected from Karnataka, Chhattisgarh a...

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