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Infant mortality in times of recession
Can recessions have permanent effects on people’s health in developing countries? This column looks at infant mortality in India and finds that recessions make things worse. The paradox is that this i...
- Sonia Bhalotra
- 30 January, 2013
- Articles
Looking for icons to transform social norms
What can be done to reduce the incidence of rape? This article proposes that messages from role models such as cricketers and film stars can change outlooks. It outlines a strategy for measuring the e...
- Debraj Ray
- 28 January, 2013
- Perspectives
Like parent, like child: Health transmission in developing countries
To what extent is children’s health determined by their mothers’ health? This column analyses three decades’ worth of data on over two million children across 38 developing countries to explore how he...
- Sonia Bhalotra
- 28 January, 2013
- Articles
Helping the poor to save
Do poor people save? This column portrays the saving and financial behaviours and preferences of the poor. It recommends designing and marketing savings products that address the constraints they curr...
- Parul Agarwal Deepti KC Mudita Tiwari
- 23 January, 2013
- Articles
US-China relations: Role reversal will slow climate change
This column proposes a new approach to climate change that involves China, and eventually other developing countries, offering inducements to the West to take steps to foster a private-sector led gree...
- Aaditya Mattoo Arvind Subramanian
- 23 January, 2013
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Capital controls in India: Did they work?
Are capital controls the right way to manage an economy? This column looks at what we can learn from India’s experience, where capital controls have never been fully dismantled.
- Ila Patnaik Ajay Shah
- 21 January, 2013
- Articles
Does political reservation for women improve programme delivery?
This column outlines results of a study that assesses the impact of women leaders on corruption and other aspects of the quality of delivery of MNREGA. It argues that administrative experience, traini...
- Farzana Afridi
- 17 January, 2013
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India's missing women by age and state
This column presents results of a study that breaks down “missing women” by age across the Indian states. It illustrates that Indian women face the risk of excess mortality at every stage of their liv...
- Siwan Anderson Debraj Ray
- 11 January, 2013
- Articles
Helping India's informal manufacturing sector to grow
India’s informal manufacturing sector is dominated by small household enterprises that keep everything within the family – but these firms are often the least productive. Why aren’t these small enterp...
- Kunal Sen
- 09 January, 2013
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Creating entrepreneurs: A big new idea in development
Can the world’s poorest people become entrepreneurs? This column outlines results from an evaluation of the Ultra Poor programme in Bangladesh, a scheme that the NGO behind it claims is a staggering s...
- Oriana Bandiera Robin Burgess Imran Rasul
- 07 January, 2013
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How to motivate India's community workers?
People who work on-the-ground are essential to India’s development effort. But how to get these teachers, health workers and so on to work hard when money is tight? This column argues that there are o...
- Nava Ashraf
- 04 January, 2013
- Articles
Economic policy agenda for India in 2013
What should the priorities be for economic policymakers in India in the coming year? This column emphasises the need for greater transparency, and improved governance and regulation for reviving econo...
- Dilip Mookherjee
- 02 January, 2013
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