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Role model effects? Women's political participation in India
Women’s political candidacy in India is very low and appears to be an important barrier to their representation in government. Does a deficiency of female role models hold back women’s candidacy? Ana...
- Sonia Bhalotra Irma Clots-Figueras Lakshmi Iyer
- 14 September, 2015
- Articles
Are self-help groups helpful?
While a lot of funding goes towards community-driven development projects, rigorous evidence on their socioeconomic impact is limited. This column evaluates the impact of JEEViKA – a rural livelihood...
- Upamanyu Datta
- 11 September, 2015
- Articles
The need for police reform
The police in India are still mainly governed by the Police Act of 1861. In this article, Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, emphasises the need for police reform in order to check misu...
- Abhijit Banerjee
- 09 September, 2015
- Perspectives
The rolling global crisis and India
We are in the midst of a global growth crisis that began in 2007. In this article, Ashoka Mody, Professor of International Economic Policy at Princeton University, contends that the pervasive global ...
- Ashoka Mody
- 07 September, 2015
- Perspectives
Has the recession which began in 2012 ended?
The high growth rates visible in the new GDP data suggest that the recession which began in the first quarter of 2012 has now ended. Based on analysis of data on firms, investment and Balance of Paym...
- Ajay Shah
- 04 September, 2015
- Articles
Is the MNREGA fund crunch making the programme clientelistic?
Fund allocation for MNREGA has seen a steady decline in real terms over the last few years. Analysing official MNREGA data along with survey data from Rajasthan, this column shows that in the face of...
- Upasak Das Diego Maiorano
- 02 September, 2015
- Articles
Impact Evaluation of a Public Health Insurance Plan in India: Post Health Event Survey Pilot
This project pilots a Post Health Event Survey (PHES). The PHES is a potentially more efficient survey strategy than conducting one annual survey of all households. The PHES pilot was conducted in two...
- Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 September, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Income inequality in India: Trends from the World Top Incomes Database
Given the lack of reliable wage or asset data, tax returns-based World Top Incomes Database is important for measuring income and wealth inequalities. Analysing the India series of the database, this...
- Amit Basole
- 31 August, 2015
- Articles
Emergence of Bandhan as a bank: A new era in the Indian banking industry
At a time when the Indian banking industry is experiencing a steep rise in bad loans, Bandhan – an MFI with a near 100% loan recovery rate – has converted into a bank. Based on a survey of 112 Bandha...
- Somdutta Basu Souvik Dutta Abhirup Sarkar
- 27 August, 2015
- Articles
India's monetary policy in unusual times, uncharted waters
There is a lot of discussion of the right course of monetary policy for India. In this article, India’s Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian argues that the country’s real policy interest rates ...
- Arvind Subramanian
- 26 August, 2015
- Perspectives
Is the policy focus shifting from school education to higher education in India?
The overall allocation for education has been reduced in the 2015-16 union budget, with an increase in allocation for higher education and decrease in allocation for school education. In this article...
- Ashish Bhardwaj Anamika Srivastava
- 25 August, 2015
- Perspectives
The political economy of data
Recent experiences, especially from Scandinavian countries, show that opening administrative data sources can substantially improve public policymaking. In this article, Pande and Blum contend that w...
- Florian Blum Rohini Pande
- 21 August, 2015
- Perspectives