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Trade liberalisation and intergenerational occupational mobility in urban India
While the trade reforms of the 90s led to a rapid increase in trade in India, there are concerns regarding the likely impact of the reforms on inequality. This column shows that innovation induced by...
- Reshad N Ahsan Arpita Chatterjee
- 18 April, 2016
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Caste quotas in politics and development outcomes
To guarantee the political inclusion of the historically marginalised groups, electoral quotas have been in place for them in India since 1950. Analysing the constituency-level impact of quotas for S...
- Francesca R. Jensenius
- 14 April, 2016
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Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme
Private health insurance covering tertiary diseases is limited to the upper middle class in India. One reason for low take-up of publicly-financed health insurance among economically weaker sections i...
- Tarun Jain
- 12 April, 2016
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Local political elite capture and BPL card allocation
There is significant anecdotal evidence for the fact that local political connections at the grassroots level is an important channel through which leakages take place in welfare schemes in India such...
- Sitakanta Panda
- 08 April, 2016
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Achieving financial inclusion: Going cashless
A World Bank survey reveals that while about half of all individuals in India had bank accounts in 2014, only 12% had made a cashless transaction in the past year. In this article, Bappaditya Mukhopa...
- Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay
- 06 April, 2016
- Perspectives
Asking the right question to get the right policy
There is consensus in the development community on the importance of bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners; however, misaligned incentives underlie this gap. In this article, Pande, M...
- Eric Dodge Charity Troyer Moore Rohini Pande
- 04 April, 2016
- Perspectives
The less the merrier? Family size and education in India
In the face of financial constraints, children from larger families are expected to have relatively less education and poor health. This column explores the empirical relevance this ‘quantity-quality ...
- Adriana Kugler Santosh Kumar
- 01 April, 2016
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Is Bihar the new poster boy for PDS reforms?
Food security is a critical issue and Bihar has made remarkable progress over the years. The aim of this project was to document the supply side reforms in Bihar’s PDS and explain why or why not these...
- Aaditya Dar Chinmaya Kumar Pankaj Verma
- 01 April, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme infor...
- Tarun Jain
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Causes and consequences of low caloric intake in India: Nutrition, productivity, and cognition
Many of the world’s poor consume very few calories. Because calories are not just consumption, but also an input into production, this low consumption may dampen labour productivity and impede decisio...
- Sendhil Mullainathan Heather Schofield
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Smart data: Can visualised administrative data help inform and hold public stakeholders accountable?
The project examined how interactive data visualisations can be used to present administrative data in a way that is easily digestible, lends itself to exploration and provides a clear link to require...
- Eric Dodge Charity Troyer Moore Rohini Pande
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How doorstep banking increased savings and income in Sri Lanka
Recent findings in development economics indicate that microloans are likely to perform best when accompanied by financial education, insurance, and savings products. This column presents evidence fro...
- Michael Callen Suresh de Mel Craig McIntosh Christopher Woodruff
- 30 March, 2016
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