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Governance and public service delivery in India
The International Growth Centre recently produced a synthesis paper (Afridi 2017) bringing together insights from its research on governance and public service delivery in India, over the past seven y...
- Farzana Afridi Nalini Gulati
- 07 August, 2017
- Perspectives
Demonetisation, cattle slaughter ban, and India's cyclical agrarian crisis
In this article, Parag Waknis discusses why India’s rural economy is always on the precipice of crisis, and how the recent shocks of demonetisation and cattle slaughter ban exacerbated the crisis by d...
- Parag Waknis
- 04 August, 2017
- Perspectives
What does the new IIP series tell us about the state of manufacturing in India?
In May 2017, the Central Statistics Office released the new series of the Index of Industrial Production with 2011-12 as the base year, after a comprehensive revision of computation methods. The serie...
- Radhika Pandey Amey Sapre Pramod Sinha
- 02 August, 2017
- Articles
Midday meals scheme: Are corruption claims exaggerated?
Soon after Aadhaar was made compulsory for availing midday meals in schools, the government claimed that the move had helped expose several instances of schools siphoning off funds under the scheme by...
- Monika Yadav
- 31 July, 2017
- Articles
Health policy and economic growth in India
A new synthesis paper (Menon 2017) produced by the International Growth Centre brings together evidence from various health-related IGC studies on India undertaken over the past seven years, to draw i...
- Nalini Gulati Nidhiya Menon
- 27 July, 2017
- Perspectives
The economic and political consequences of India's demonetisation
The ruling party at the centre won the Uttar Pradesh state election despite its demonetisation policy having some negative economic impacts on the Indian economy. By combining primary data from survey...
- Abhijit Banerjee Namrata Kala
- 26 July, 2017
- Articles
Star power: Rating industries in Maharashtra by emission levels
Maharashtra Pollution Control Board recently launched a programme to rate industries based on their emission levels – the first such initiative by a government regulator. An easy and accessible way t...
- Michael Greenstone Rohini Pande Nicholas Ryan Anant Sudarshan
- 25 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Does political background of leaders matter for development?
The objective of this paper is to investigate whether a legislator's political background matters for development/provision of public goods. This project studies this issue at the sub-national level i...
- Aaditya Dar
- 25 July, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Towards financial prescription
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has proposed that the distributors of mutual funds should only be allowed to sell financial products and not act as financial advisers for customers. Drawing...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 24 July, 2017
- Perspectives
India's slum leaders - I
India’s demographic shift to cities has been accompanied by a number of pressing governance and developmental challenges, among the most serious of which is the rampant spread of slum settlements. Wit...
- Adam Auerbach Tariq Thachil
- 20 July, 2017
- Articles
Why 'free' speech is not always 'costless'
A recent CBI raid at the premises of the owners of NDTV has sparked off yet another round of debates about freedom of the media, the spectre of authoritarianism, and freedom of expression in India. In...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 19 July, 2017
- Perspectives
Off-grid solar power and the future of rural electrification in India
Off-grid solar power is a potential alternative to grid extension in rural electrification. This column reports results from a recent experiment with an off-grid lighting intervention in Uttar Pradesh...
- Michaёl Aklin Patrick Bayer S.P. Harish Johannes Urpelainen
- 17 July, 2017
- Articles