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Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme infor...
- Tarun Jain
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Causes and consequences of low caloric intake in India: Nutrition, productivity, and cognition
Many of the world’s poor consume very few calories. Because calories are not just consumption, but also an input into production, this low consumption may dampen labour productivity and impede decisio...
- Sendhil Mullainathan Heather Schofield
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Smart data: Can visualised administrative data help inform and hold public stakeholders accountable?
The project examined how interactive data visualisations can be used to present administrative data in a way that is easily digestible, lends itself to exploration and provides a clear link to require...
- Eric Dodge Charity Troyer Moore Rohini Pande
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How doorstep banking increased savings and income in Sri Lanka
Recent findings in development economics indicate that microloans are likely to perform best when accompanied by financial education, insurance, and savings products. This column presents evidence fro...
- Michael Callen Suresh de Mel Craig McIntosh Christopher Woodruff
- 30 March, 2016
- Articles
Afterword: What lies ahead for MNREGA?
In an afterword to the e-symposium on ‘10 years of MNREGA and the way forward’, I4I Editor Farzana Afridi contends that the evidence summarised in the e-symposium suggests that MNREGA is not merely a ...
- Farzana Afridi
- 28 March, 2016
- Articles
Increasing economic divide within backward castes
While the high level of socioeconomic inequality between the forward and backward caste groups in India is well documented, there is little research on inequalities within the backward caste groups. T...
- Ashish Singh
- 28 March, 2016
- Articles
Self-reported health data: Issues and solutions
Health data from the National Sample Survey shows an increase in morbidity in India over the years. However, given that the data is self-reported, it is difficult to ascertain whether this indeed refl...
- Aparajita Dasgupta
- 23 March, 2016
- Articles
Improving maternal and child health through conditional cash transfers
Cash transfers to the poor, conditional on use of particular public services, are a popular tool to increase healthcare utilisation. This column evaluates the impact of one such scheme – Janani Suraks...
- Sisir Debnath
- 21 March, 2016
- Articles
MNREGA, 10 years on: Glass half-full or half-empty?
In this article, Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics and Policy at the University of Manchester, evaluates whether MNREGA has achieved its broader development objectives. He further analyses...
- Kunal Sen
- 18 March, 2016
- Perspectives
MNREGA: Technology vs. technocracy
In this article, Reetika Khera, Associate Professor of Economics at IIT Delhi, argues that for MNREGA to flourish in the future, technologies that empower workers should be encouraged, and the tenden...
- Reetika Khera
- 17 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Four key administrative reforms to strengthen MNREGA
In this article, Ashwini Kulkarni of NGO Pragati Abhiyan, discusses four key administrative reforms that can strengthen the implementation of MNREGA, and enable the programme to fulfill its objectives...
- Ashwini Kulkarni
- 17 March, 2016
- Perspectives
MNREGA: Vision and reality
In this article, Martin Ravallion, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, contends that the main proximate reason for MNREGA’s disappointing performance is that many people in poor areas of...
- Martin Ravallion
- 16 March, 2016
- Perspectives