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Effectiveness fo E-Auctions in Emerging Economies
The primary research goal of this project is to examine whether governments in emerging economies can increase revenues by selling land through e-auctions (anonymous auctions conduced online over a pe...
- Venkatesh Kannaiah Venkatesh Panchapagesan
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Impact of groundwater accessibility on performance of firms
While labour laws and capital have been identified as key constraints to industrial growth, there is scant evidence on whether accessibility of vital natural resources, such as groundwater, also influ...
- Sheetal Sekhri
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Repayment flexibility, contract choice, and investment decisions among Indian microfinance borrowers
Borrowers’ difficulties to comply with repayment obligations, for entrepreneurial and consumption motives, have pushed several microfinance institutions to introduce some degree of flexibility during ...
- Parul Agarwal Giacomo De Giorgi
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze
I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time. The...
- Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
- 28 March, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Strengthening primary healthcare: From promises to reality
In February 2017, Government of India had announced its plans to upgrade some of the existing primary healthcare facilities into Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs). However, the pace of implementatio...
- Chandrakant Lahariya
- 27 March, 2018
- Perspectives
Temperature and human capital in India
A large proportion of the population in India has agrarian livelihoods that remain climate-exposed. The number of hot days per year in the country are expected to double by the end of this century. T...
- Teevrat Garg Maulik Jagnani Vis Taraz
- 26 March, 2018
- Articles
Understanding the recent ordinance amending the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) is a landmark reform for India. One year after the notification of the law, an Ordinance to amend IBC has been promulgated, which bars several categories...
- Rajeswari Sengupta Anjali Sharma
- 23 March, 2018
- Perspectives
Congestion pricing to solve traffic jams? Not so fast!
The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi recently said that the city is likely to become the first in India to have congestion charges in certain stretches. This column reports results from an experimental p...
- Gabriel Kreindler
- 19 March, 2018
- Articles
Jobless growth? From speculation to statistical analysis
This column investigates the relationship between economic growth and net job creation in India and South Asia. If economic growth was truly jobless, as is often claimed, labour productivity would be...
- Robert C M Beyer Martin Rama
- 16 March, 2018
- Articles
Fostering social connections
This column describes an ongoing study that analyses data from Delhi’s labour-intensive garment factories to explore the relationship between trust among workers and productivity. Using the strength o...
- Farzana Afridi Amrita Dhillon Sherry Xin Li Swati Sharma
- 16 March, 2018
- Articles
Management practices and productivity in India
In this article, Bloom and Patnaik bring together research that analyses management practices of firms, and how they relate to firm productivity and performance. They highlight the importance of under...
- Nicholas Bloom Megha Patnaik
- 15 March, 2018
- Articles
Role of private sector in the holistic skilling of India’s workforce
Low skill levels of workers are a key reason for low labour productivity in developing countries. In this article, Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that centres around two important questions in this...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Lavanya Garg Anant Nyshadham
- 14 March, 2018
- Perspectives