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Herself, and her child: Are they worse off due to Covid-19?

Lockdowns imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19 led to loss of employment and income. They also created greater food insecurity, with women and children being more vulnerable to such shocks. In t...

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The post-pandemic credit landscape in India

The economic shock caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and longstanding structural issues like the NPA crisis with its associated risk aversion in the banking sector resulted in low bank credit growth in...

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प्राकृतिक आपदाओं की आर्थिक गतिशीलता: केरल में आई बाढ़ से साक्ष्य

इस लेख में, प्राकृतिक आपदाओं के आर्थिक प्रभाव को समझने हेतु एक स्वाभाविक प्रयोग (नैचुराल एक्सपेरिमेंट) को डिजाइन करने के लिए, वर्ष 2018 में केरल में आई बाढ़ का संदर्भ लिया गया है, जब वहां पड़ोसी राज्य...

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Priorities for the G20 Finance Track

Considering the macroeconomic challenges faced by emerging markets, Eichengreen and Gupta outline a few key aspects of the financial agenda that G20 members could address. They discuss seven areas of ...

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Old habits and new norms

As schools reopen and memories of the pandemic fade, Madhav Chavan takes stock of practices and ideas that have become the ‘new normal’. He highlights the increase in enrollment and absence of learnin...

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कोलकाता में ऑटो रिक्शा हेतु अवैध ईंधन के उपयोग के बारे में साक्ष्य

कलकत्ता उच्च न्यायालय ने वर्ष 2008 में वायु की गुणवत्ता में सुधार के प्रयास में आदेश दिया कि कोलकाता और ग्रेटर कोलकाता में सभी पेट्रोल ऑटो को बदल कर पेट्रोल के स्थान पर तरलीकृत पेट्रोलियम गैस (एलपीजी)...

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Sweet cash: Women’s demand for healthcare in developing countries

Agrawal et al. explore the role of gender-based preferences for demand of healthcare. Using CPHS data they find that the positive income shock – generated by a change in the mandated rates of contribu...

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Empowering patients with information to improve hospital accountability

Despite the expansion of free healthcare for the poor throughout India, many hospitals continue to charge patients out-of-pocket fees. In this study, Dupas and Jain investigate whether informing patie...

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भारत में सिंचाई और स्थानीय आर्थिक विकास के स्थान आधारित पैटर्न

भारत की सिंचाई परियोजनाओं का उद्देश्य कृषि की उत्पादकता और ग्रामीण विकास को बढ़ावा देना है। इस लेख में ब्लेकस्ली एवं अन्य द्वारा स्थानीय आर्थिक गतिविधियों की संरचना में सिंचाई उपलब्ध होने के दीर्घकालि...

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The costs of extreme competition for government jobs

Indian states have highly competitive examinations for public service recruitment, with many youth remaining unemployed for long periods to compete for these government vacancies. Kunal Mangal looks a...

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AI and services-led growth: Evidence from Indian job adverts

Using a new dataset of online vacancies from India’s largest jobs website, Copestake et al. document near-exponential growth in the demand for artificial intelligence-related skills in the services s...

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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: An update

Building on past research, Saswata Ghosh and Pallabi Das estimate the state- and district-level fertility differentials between Hindus and Muslims using data from the latest round of the NFHS. They sh...

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