Tag Search: “gender”
Rethinking ‘mobile camps’ for cancer screening
Despite public-private initiatives to increase preventive screening for cancer through mobile camps, mortality rates on account of the disease continue to be high. In this post, Ghosh and Sekar discus...
- Samayita Ghosh Preethiya Sekar
- 28 May, 2020
- Perspectives
India’s Covid-19 lockdown: An interim report
In an earlier paper, Debraj Ray and S. Subramanian had argued that in developing countries like India, a perspective of "lives versus lives" may be needed to evaluate the virtues of a stringent lockdo...
- Debraj Ray S. Subramanian
- 26 May, 2020
- Perspectives
How has Covid-19 crisis affected urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - II
While several commentators have highlighted the plight of migrants due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, less is known about how low-income families living in urban shanty towns are faring. Afridi et al...
- Farzana Afridi Amrita Dhillon Sanchari Roy
- 11 May, 2020
- Notes from the Field
IGC Panel Discussion: Women’s economic empowerment
In December 2019, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC), organised a panel discussion on ‘Women Economic Empowerment: Constraint & Solutions’ in Patna, in collaboration with Asi...
- Shivani Chowdhry Rishabh Mahendra
- 29 April, 2020
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How has Covid-19 crisis affected the urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - I
While several commentators have highlighted the plight of migrants due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, less is known about how low-income families living in urban shanty towns are faring. In this note...
- Farzana Afridi Amrita Dhillon Sanchari Roy
- 23 April, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Gender composition of children and sanitation behaviour
Open defecation has been linked to various public health issues and has gained significant policy attention. Nonetheless, research has shown that due to son preference, households in India underinvest...
- Deepak Saraswat
- 22 April, 2020
- Articles
Covid-19: Lockdown and domestic abuse
As governments across the globe enforce lockdowns of varying degrees to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus, a horrifying fallout has been a surge in reports of domestic violence in several countries, ...
- Nalini Gulati
- 19 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Women in the economy: Emerging issues
As the world adjusts to the new reality brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, the workspaces of the future may look very different from what they are today. How would these changes impact women? To bet...
- Farzana Afridi Nalini Gulati
- 13 April, 2020
- Perspectives
IGC Panel Discussion: Gender and labour
Latest official data show that female labour force participation (FLFP) in India has declined from 33.1% in 2011-12 to 25.3% in 2017-18. The state of Bihar has the lowest FLFP in the country. To delib...
- Nalini Gulati
- 06 March, 2020
- Videos
IGC Panel Discussion on gender: Equality and empowerment
In August 2019, the India Programme of the International Growth Centre (IGC) – in collaboration with the Women Development Corporation (WDC), Government of Bihar, and the Asian Development Research In...
- Kumar Das
- 17 February, 2020
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Expanding opportunities in India’s labour market: Gender, skills, and migration
In September 2019, the International Growth Centre (IGC) organised a panel discussion in New Delhi to bring together experts to deliberate on the evidence around the causes of low female labour force ...
- Nalini Gulati Ella Spencer
- 27 January, 2020
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Death penalty for gender-based violence: A band-aid solution for a broken system
In 2018, Government of India amended the Protection of Children against Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Indian Penal Code to provide for death penalty for rape of children under 12 years of ...
- Shreeradha Mishra
- 17 January, 2020
- Perspectives