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The decline of rural earning inequality in India
While earnings inequality remained virtually unchanged in urban India between 2004-05 and 2011-12, it declined sharply in rural India over this period. This column finds that although the change in t...
- Deepti Goel Shantanu Khanna Rene Morissette
- 05 April, 2017
- Articles
Highway network designs and regional economic development
The Indian National Highway Development Project and its components such as the Golden Quadrilateral or the North-South and East-West corridors are planned to alleviate constraints due to insufficient...
- Simon Alder
- 03 April, 2017
- Articles
Disintermediating the State: Would a universal basic income reduce poverty more than targeted programmes?
Commenting on the discussion of the universal basic income in India’s Economic Survey 2016-17, Justin Sandefur contends that a modest version of UBI could potentially save money and shift expenditure...
- Justin Sandefur
- 31 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Kanyashree Prakalpa in West Bengal: Justification and evaluation
Kanyasree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme of the Government of West Bengal that offers scholarship to adolescent girls for continuing education and remaining unmarried until the age of ...
- Arijita Dutta Anindita Sen
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Tax, lies, and red tape
Weak institutional environments in poor countries may lead to lower tax compliance by firms. This may be especially true for family firms, whose owners have higher stakes in the firm and longer horizo...
- Megha Patnaik
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship: Theory and historical evidence from India
The transition from agriculture to trade and the subsequent transition from trade to manufacturing are key stages in the development process. In countries where a substantial manufacturing sector exis...
- Bishnupriya Gupta Dilip Mookherjee Kaivan Munshi
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Analysing the impact of government interventions in agriculture on consumption
In the context of bankruptcy, many important studies have examined the implications of debt relief on different real outcomes. However, the decision to file for bankruptcy could be endogenous; examin...
- Mrinal Mishra Prasanna Tantri Nagaraju Thota
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Price risk and poverty
A common feature of markets in many developing economies is a lack of integration. This leads to substantial variation in prices of basic commodities across space, and risk to households from local su...
- Lucie Gadenne Monica Singhal Sandip Sukhtankar
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Household responses to information, communication of actions of community, incentives on solid waste management actions: A case study of Delhi househo
Delhi generates huge amounts of municipal solid waste per day. Given rising incomes, the already burgeoning mountains of waste will only grow further.
- Shivani Wadehra
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
- Krisztina Kis-Katos Janneke Pieters Shruti Sharma
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Bidding for roads
This project aims to understand how to make it harder for local politicians to capture small-scale infrastructure projects. In the context of the bidding process for contracts under India’s flagship r...
- Oliver Eynde Jacob Shapiro
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Infrastructure and economic growth: The role of airports
Given that banking sectors in low-income countries are inefficient, why don’t lenders from wealthier countries profitably lend to productive firms in these countries? One possibility is that foreign l...
- Natalie Bau Jesse Schreger
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India