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Long-run impacts of tube well irrigation in India
Increasing agricultural productivity may significantly and positively impact welfare, income and the pace of structural transformation. Using India’s Green Revolution and the corresponding self-suffic...
- Parul Jain
- 17 February, 2023
- Articles
मानव और पारिस्थितिकी तंत्र स्वास्थ्य किस प्रकार से आपस में जुड़े हुए हैं: भारत में गिद्धों की संख्या में गिरावट से साक्ष्य
भारत के किसान परंपरागत रूप से अपने मृत मवेशियों के शवों के निपटान हेतु गिद्धों पर भरोसा करते आये हैं। किन्तु आकस्मिक विषाक्तता के चलते भारत में गिद्धों की संख्या कम हो जाने के कारण मृत मवेशियों के शवो...
- Eyal Frank Anant Sudarshan
- 16 फ़रवरी, 2023
- लेख
The state of Adivasi livelihoods after 75 years of planned development
Despite efforts to ensure their wellbeing, the Adivasi community remains one of the most deprived in India. In this post, Chaudhuri and Ghosh discuss the findings of a study surveying the livelihood s...
- Dibyendu Chaudhuri Parijat Ghosh
- 15 February, 2023
- Articles
Economic dynamics of natural disasters: Evidence from the Kerala floods
To understand the economic impact of natural disasters, this article uses the 2018 floods in Kerala – a time when it received higher rainfall than the neighbouring states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu ¬...
- Robert C M Beyer Gogol Mitra Thakur Abhinav Narayanan
- 13 February, 2023
- Articles
I4I@10 | Emerging from Covid-19: Challenges and solutions
As India emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, economists will have to rethink how they understand the Indian economy in context of global volatilities. In this panel, moderated by Amartya Lahiri, Viral...
- Viral Acharya Yamini Aiyar Amartya Lahiri Pronab Sen I4I Team
- 10 February, 2023
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Land misallocation and industrial development
Although a large share of land in India is used for cultivation, large tracts of this are unproductive and produce low crop yields. In this post, Dasgupta and Rao explain their calculations to determi...
- Kunal Dasgupta Rahul Rao
- 07 February, 2023
- Articles
Budget 2023-24: Some good and no harm
Following the budget speech, Deepak Mishra weighs in on the extent to which the three goals of higher growth, better distribution, and stability were met. He discusses the Finance Minister’s success i...
- Deepak Mishra
- 03 February, 2023
- Perspectives
आर्थिक रूप से कमजोर वर्ग हेतु आरक्षण को कुशलतापूर्वक क्रियान्वित करने की चुनौतियाँ
हाल ही में सुप्रीम कोर्ट के एक फैसले के अनुसार आरक्षित श्रेणियों के सदस्यों को ईडब्ल्यूएस (आर्थिक रूप से कमजोर वर्ग) के दायरे से बाहर कर दिया गया है। आयगुन, तुरहान और येनमेज़ इस निर्णय के निहितार्थों ...
- Orhan Aygün Bertan Turhan M. Bumin Yenmez
- 31 जनवरी, 2023
- दृष्टिकोण
Budget 2023-24: A wish list of priorities
Ahead of the release of the Union Budget for FY2023-24, Chetan Subramanian reveals his expectations about the government’s key priorities and how they could balance multiple objectives. He discusses t...
- Chetan Subramanian
- 31 January, 2023
- Perspectives
I4I@10 | First Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture: The future of development
What is the 'fourth' fundamental law of capitalism? Will capital ‘inherit the earth’? Has the pandemic quickened the intuitive appeal of the capital-labour substitution? Should sovereign funds be base...
- Debraj Ray I4I Team
- 30 January, 2023
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Creative destruction and catch-up growth in India
In this post, Peters and Zilibotti compare the size of firms in India and the US, and find that the 90% of firms in India have four employees or less, and attribute it to the absence of creative destr...
- Michael Peters Fabrizio Zilibotti
- 27 January, 2023
- Articles
Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India
Irrigation projects across India are intended to boost agricultural productivity and rural development. In this post, Blakeslee et al. study the long-run effects of access to irrigation on the composi...
- David Blakeslee Aaditya Dar Ram Fishman Samreen Malik Heitor Pellegrina Karan Singh Bagavathinathan
- 25 January, 2023
- Articles