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Infrastructure and economic growth: The role of airports
Given that banking sectors in low-income countries are inefficient, why don’t lenders from wealthier countries profitably lend to productive firms in these countries? One possibility is that foreign l...
- Natalie Bau Jesse Schreger
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Indian Climate Early Warning System
This project involves the development of a spatially-disaggregated Indian Climate Early Warning System. For any given current weather realisation, the Early Warning System will produce maps that displ...
- Michael Greenstone Amir Jina Robert Kopp Ashwin Rode
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
One Nation, Many Worlds: Varieties of Developmental Regimes in India
The project developed a theory on developmental regimes through a systematic examination of the variation in policy priorities across Indian states. The findings from the project suggest that two fact...
- Poulomi Chakrabarti Ashutosh Varshney
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Risks and Investment in Education
This project analysed the effects of household income risk on schooling investment in rural India. The findings from this project suggest that income risk faced by poorer households is an important re...
- Tanuka Endow Alok Kumar
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
The Impact of Community Mobilization on Land Rights Governance: Evidence from a Homestead Land Entitlement Initiative in Gaya District of Bihar, India
This project evaluates the impact of a community level program in Gaya district that seeks to establish, train, and mobilize village-level community-based organizations to assist Scheduled Caste house...
- Sanjay Kumar Andre Nickow
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Industrial Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition
This project's objective is to use theoretically-motivated empirics to examine the relationship between market power and industrial agglomeration/clusters in order to better evaluate the impacts of de...
- Wyatt Brooks Joseph Kaboski Yao Amber Li
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Bidding for Roads
The project looks into the mechanisms of political influence by analyzing whether contractors without political connections are deterred from applying, or whether the evaluation process is biased in f...
- Oliver Eynde Jonathan Lehne Jacob Shapiro
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Promoting excellence in higher education in India
Over the years, the entire system of higher education in India has relentlessly bled talent. In this article, Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, discusses why this is so, and what can be...
- Abhijit Banerjee
- 29 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Holy wars: Temple desecrations in medieval India
The rise of extremist groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic State, and their destruction of religious relics, have led some to magnify the presence of religious bigotry in Islamic societies. Usi...
- Sriya Iyer Anand Shrivastava Rohit Ticku
- 27 March, 2017
- Articles
On India's latest GDP numbers
India’s latest GDP data shows that the economy grew at 7% in the previous quarter, despite demonetisation. In this article, Abhijit Banerjee discusses why the new numbers are likely to be an overestim...
- Abhijit Banerjee
- 25 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Constructing housing for the poor without destroying their communities
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana aims to achieve housing for all by 2022. However, vacancy of 23% was reported last year in urban housing built under the programme. In this article, Rohini Pande, conte...
- Rohini Pande
- 24 March, 2017
- Notes from the Field
The dangers that lie beneath India's IT layoffs
The ongoing layoffs in India’s IT sector are at a scale that has not been seen since the global financial crisis of 2008. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at LSE, contends tha...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 24 March, 2017
- Articles