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Education for all: Fixing classroom processes
While India has achieved near universal enrolment in schools, the quality of education is far from satisfactory. There is an urgent need to change classroom processes to ensure that those who go to s...
- Amarjeet Sinha
- 11 June, 2014
- Notes from the Field
Trade as aid
Preferential or duty/quota-free trade access to developing countries, as a form of foreign aid by developed countries, is considered to have both pros and cons. This column analyses data from Banglade...
- Ivan Cherkashin Svetlana Demidova Hiau Looi Kee Kala Krishna
- 09 June, 2014
- Articles
Emerging challenges: Economic and social
To mark the second anniversary of I4I in July 2014, we invited two eminent scholars – Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Mukul Kesavan (Jamia Milia) to discuss the emerging economic and social challenges in I...
- Abhijit Banerjee Mukul Kesavan Ashok Kotwal
- 06 June, 2014
- Videos
A unique, informal banking system of rickshaw drivers in cities
Seasonal, rural migrants that drive rickshaws in cities have little or no access to formal financial institutions. Based on a survey of over 100 rickshaw drivers in Delhi, this article highlights a un...
- Garima Agarwal Shashank Bhatt Skand Goel Arushi Kaushik
- 04 June, 2014
- Notes from the Field
Reconstructing facts in Bt cotton: Why scepticism fails
In disputes around Bt cotton, a “triumph narrative” is alleged to have emerged from researchers - mainly economists - catering to vested interests of the biotech industry, its funding and allied journ...
- Ronald Herring
- 02 June, 2014
- Articles
An economic roadmap for India
With a new government at the Centre, there is an expectation of a revival of growth of the Indian economy. This article contends that India can return to the path of sustainable growth by investing i...
- Iqbal Dhaliwal Gita Gopinath
- 30 May, 2014
- Perspectives
MNREGA: Populist leaky bucket or successful anti-poverty programme?
MNREGA – the world’s largest workfare programme - formed the backbone of the UPA government’s anti-poverty programme, and may well represent its most important legacy in the long run. This column rev...
- Dilip Mookherjee
- 28 May, 2014
- Articles
Reversing premature de-industrialisation in India
In countries across the world, de-industrialisation is taking place earlier in the development process. This column analyses how India fares in this regard. It finds that for most Indian states, the ...
- Amrit Amirapu Arvind Subramanian
- 26 May, 2014
- Articles
Do women in power have an impact on corruption?
The recently elected 16th Lok Sabha of India will have a record number of 61 women parliamentarians. This column assesses whether women in the labour force or positions of power can have an impact on...
- Chandan Kumar Jha Sudipta Sarangi
- 21 May, 2014
- Articles
Corporate debt market in India: Issues and challenges
While it is true that the Indian corporate debt market has transformed itself into a much more vibrant trading field for debt instruments from the elementary market that it was about a decade ago, th...
- Vaibhav Anand Rajeswari Sengupta
- 19 May, 2014
- Articles
Religion, minority status, and trust
A key factor that drives segmentation in societies is group identities along various dimensions. This column seeks to understand the effects of identity on individual behaviour. Based on an artefactu...
- Minhaj Mahmud Pushkar Maitra Ananta Neelim
- 14 May, 2014
- Articles
What voters reward: Evidence from the 2009 Indian parliamentary elections
Do voters care about economic outcomes? This column analyses the 2009 parliamentary elections in India and finds that voters favoured parties that delivered high growth in their states and rejected t...
- Poonam Gupta Arvind Panagariya
- 12 May, 2014
- Articles