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Global supply chain disruptions: Causes and the way ahead
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the global supply chains, with persistent effects since early 2020, and knock-on effects now gaining intensity. In this post, Sharmila Kanth...
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Sharmila Kantha
13 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Role of the media in shaping women’s political preferences
What is the role of information sources in forming political preferences, and under what conditions do women have the cognitive agency to form political opinions distinct from men? To examine this, us...
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Sumitra Badrinathan
Deepaboli Chatterjee
Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
10 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Intra-marital hierarchies and perceptions about working mothers
Women in India spend thrice as much time doing unpaid domestic work compared to the men in their household, and twice as much time on care-giving activities for children and dependent adults. Based on...
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Shubhangi Karia
Tanvi Mehta
09 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Women’s mobility in north India
Although India has experienced structural and social changes that promote gender equality in many respects, women’s physical mobility remains very low. Analysing primary data from three urban clusters...
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Vidisha Mehta
Harish Sai
08 December, 2021
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भारत में भूमि के स्वामित्व के सन्दर्भ में लैंगिक और आंतर-लैंगिक अंतर
हालाँकि महिलाओं के भू-स्वामित्व को उनके आर्थिक सशक्तिकरण के एक प्रमुख संकेतक के रूप में पहचाना जाता है, भारत में कितनी और किन महिलाओं के पास भूमि है, इसका कोई विस्तृत अनुमान नहीं है। नौ राज्यों के लिए...
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Bina Agarwal
Pervesh Anthwal
Malvika Mahesh
07 दिसंबर, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Do working women enjoy more agency?
Women’s limited work participation in India is not only of economic significance, but also has ramifications for their well-being and societal status. Based on a household survey in four north Indian ...
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Megan Maxwell
Milan Vaishnav
07 December, 2021
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Urbanisation, gender, and social change: Why is female labour force participation so low in India?
India’s low female labour force participation is a complex social phenomenon, resulting from – among other things – patriarchal norms, rural-urban transitions, and a mismatch of supply and demand fact...
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Deepaboli Chatterjee
Neelanjan Sircar
06 December, 2021
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Urbanisation, gender, and social change in north India
Urbanisation in India is reshaping established social and economic patterns of behaviour, in ways that scholars are yet to fully comprehend. India’s rapid urbanisation invites several pressing questio...
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Devesh Kapur
Neelanjan Sircar
Milan Vaishnav
06 December, 2021
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Contract labour and firm growth in India
There is considerable evidence indicating that the Industrial Disputes Act (IDA), 1947 – which made it illegal for large companies to downsize – had a powerful disincentive effect for entrepreneurs in...
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Marianne Bertrand
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Nick Tsivanidis
02 December, 2021
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Current state of play in India’s services trade
Since the 1990s liberalisation reforms, the services sector has been seen as a key driver of India’s economy. Against the backdrop of the WTO Ministerial Conference, Anil Kumar Kanungo examines the cu...
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Anil Kumar Kanungo
01 December, 2021
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शौचालय नहीं तो दुल्हन नहीं: भारत में पुरुषों का शौचालय स्वामित्व और उनकी शादी की संभावनाएं
निरंतर किये जा रहे अनुसंधान से पता चलता है कि परिवारों के लिए स्वच्छता निवेश में लागत एक प्रमुख बाधा रही है। मध्य-प्रदेश और तमिलनाडु में किये गए एक सर्वेक्षण के आधार पर, यह लेख दर्शाता है कि वित्तीय औ...
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Britta Augsburg
Paul Andrés Rodríguez Lesmes
30 नवंबर, 2021
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India’s asset monetisation plan
In August 2021, Government of India announced an asset monetisation plan wherein existing public assets worth Rs. 6 trillion would be monetised by leasing them out to private operators for fixed terms...
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Amartya Lahiri
29 November, 2021
- Perspectives