Tag Search: “migration”
Running out of water, walking away from farming
Groundwater tables are falling in India. What will happen when water actually runs out? This column analyses the impact of water scarcity on farmers in Gujarat. It finds that farmers are failing to or...
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Ram Fishman
18 December, 2013
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Short-term migration and child welfare
While much has been said about the poor working and living conditions of short-term migrants, relatively little is known of the impact of short-term migration on child welfare. This column finds that ...
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Diane Coffey
07 October, 2013
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Migrating out of poverty: The role of finance
Financial liberalisation has been controversial as it is not clear whom the expanded credit allocation actually benefits. Using variation across time and states in India, this column finds strong evi...
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Meghana Ayyagiri
Thorsten Beck
Mohammad Hoseini
13 September, 2013
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A case for including migrants' remittances in inter-state comparisons
Gross State Domestic Product, a widely used measure to compare incomes across states in India, does not include migrants’ remittances. This column argues that remittances have a bearing on drawing va...
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Chinmay Tumbe
21 June, 2013
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A Novel, Market Based Mechanism to Incentivize Efficient Groundwater/Energy use in Indian Agriculture – Setting Up a Field Experiment in Gujarat
This project documents patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in northern Gujarat in India. Given that migration ...
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Ram Fishman
Meha Jain
Avinash Kishore
Anjal Prakash
01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Macroeconomic Takeoff and Distributional Churning in India
The past 25 years have witnessed a remarkable economic catch-up by the historically discriminated against scheduled castes and tribes (SC/STs) in India towards non-SC/ST levels in terms of their educa...
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Viktoria Hnatkovska
Amartya Lahiri
01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Public goods, location choice and the voting decisions of the urban poor
India is currently under-urbanised relative to its income level, leading to widespread expectations of large-scale rural-to-urban migration in coming years.
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Abhijit Banerjee
Anjali Bharadwaj
Rohini Pande
Michael Walton
30 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India