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Building Environmental Regulation that Enables Growth
This project is linked to a broader research-policy collaboration with India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), and State Pollution Control Boards of...
- Michael Greenstone Rohini Pande Nicholas Ryan Anant Sudarshan
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Access to credit and female labour supply in India
While microfinance is believed to have the potential to increase female labour force participation, short-term experimental evaluations of microfinance have not found significant economic benefits for...
- Erica Field Rohini Pande
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How do rural roads affect development? Evidence from India
Despite broad consensus that high transportation costs are a large barrier to economic development, many of the world’s poor live in rural communities without paved roads, impeding their access to out...
- Paul Novosad
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Are small and medium enterprises constrained by the inability to raise funds from the equity markets? Evidence from the creation of a new platform in
Small and medium enterprises employ 40% of India’s workforce, and account for 45% of the manufacturing output and 40% of the total exports of the country. However, productivity in the sector is very l...
- Sanjay Banerji Krishna Gangopadhyay Madhav Shrihari
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How do disclosures affect financial choices? The case of life insurance in India
Given the importance of insurance, and the regulatory push towards improved disclosures.
- Renuka Sane Ajay Shah
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
The Impact of short-term driving restrictions on mobility and traffic congestion in Delhi
Large cities in developing countries throughout the world grapple with traffic congestion. Driving restrictions are one of the most common regulations to directly lower congestion.
- Esther Duflo Gabriel Kreindler Benjamin Olken
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Markups and capital misallocation: A trade-off? Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Capital misallocation in India has continuously increased over the past two decades, despite extensive liberalisation. At the same time, the importance of financial frictions for the Indian economy ha...
- Simon Galle
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Does choice of procurement contract matter for cost and quality of infrastructure?
Central as well as state governments in India lack financial resources and expertise needed to provide adequate infrastructure and maintain it. To augment their capacity and effectiveness, government ...
- Ram Singh
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Food Security Act: How are India's poorest states faring?
The National Food Security Act was passed in 2013. This column reports findings from a recent survey on the status of the Act in six of India’s poorest states. Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and...
- Jean Drèze Prankur Gupta Reetika Khera Isabel Pimenta
- 29 June, 2016
- Articles
The growing problem of excess weight in India
The Indian population is increasingly becoming overweight or obese, and this phenomenon is likely to impose a considerable health burden in the future. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development...
- Pushkar Maitra Nidhiya Menon
- 27 June, 2016
- Articles
Ensuring access to medicines through PPPs
To address the issue of low access to basic medicines by the general public, the state government of West Bengal introduced Fair Price Medicine Shops in secondary and tertiary hospitals through a Publ...
- Satarupa Bandyopadhyay Arijita Dutta
- 24 June, 2016
- Articles
Fixit, not Brexit
In a referendum on 23 June, Britain voted for its exit from the European Union. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, discusses the causes and likely ...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 24 June, 2016
- Perspectives