Tag Search: “gender”
Son preference, maternal health, and women’s survival: A cross-cultural analysis
Lifetime risk of maternal death in developing countries is 33 times higher as compared to the developed world. This article examines the role of cultural norms in influencing maternal morbidity and mo...
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Neha Agarwal
Annamaria Milazzo
16 July, 2020
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Covid-19 lockdown and criminal activity: Evidence from Bihar
The lockdown imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging consequences for the society. This article analyses the impact of the lockdown on criminal activity in Bihar using up-to-date p...
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Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
23 June, 2020
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IGC Panel Discussion on gender and education: From policy to practice
The International Growth Centre, in collaboration with the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), the Gender Resource Centre (GRC), the Women Development Corporation of the Government of Bihar, ...
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Kumar Das
Manish Kumar Prasad
19 June, 2020
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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...
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Samayita Ghosh
Preethiya Sekar
28 May, 2020
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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...
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Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian
26 May, 2020
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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...
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Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sanchari Roy
11 May, 2020
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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...
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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...
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Farzana Afridi
Amrita Dhillon
Sanchari Roy
23 April, 2020
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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...
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Deepak Saraswat
22 April, 2020
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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, ...
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Nalini Gulati
19 April, 2020
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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...
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Farzana Afridi
Nalini Gulati
13 April, 2020
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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...
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Nalini Gulati
06 March, 2020
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