Tag Search: “migration”
Covid-19: How well are government schemes supporting Bihar’s vulnerable populations?
The immediate adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdown was visibly greater for migrant workers and their households, whose ability to access government schemes in their villages...
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Advaita Rajendra
Ankur Sarin
Karan Singhal
18 March, 2021
- Notes from the Field
DUET re-examined
In September 2020, Jean Drèze’s proposal for an urban work programme called DUET (Decentralised Urban Employment and Training) was presented on I4I. This was followed by an extensive symposium in whic...
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Jean Drèze
09 March, 2021
- Perspectives
Did MNREGA cushion job losses during the pandemic?
The 2021-22 Budget allocation for MNREGA is 34% lower than the revised estimates for the programme in 2020-21. Analysing official MNREGA data, this article suggests that districts that have historical...
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Farzana Afridi
Kanika Mahajan
Nikita Sangwan
11 February, 2021
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Covid-19 lockdown and migrant workers: Survey of vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand
The nationwide lockdown in India hit migrant workers particularly hard and once travel restrictions were lifted, 11 million interstate migrants returned home. In this note, the authors present key fin...
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Bhaskar Chakravorty
Clément Imbert
Maximilian Lohnert
Poonam Panda
05 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Covid-19: Journey of a construction firm through the lockdown
To check the spread of Covid-19, Government of India announced a stringent, three-week national lockdown on 25 March 2020 – with some easing of restrictions in subsequent phases. This note chronicles ...
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Suhas Jangle
Bhargav Jangle
04 November, 2020
- Notes from the Field
How self-help groups enable households to cope with climatic shocks
Climate variability and extremes, combined with a lack of appropriate insurance devices, pose a risk to rain-fed agriculture and large populations in developing countries. This article examines how se...
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Timothée Demont
23 July, 2020
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Hunger and precarity: The state of nomadic fortune-tellers of Odisha
In this note, Abinash Dash Choudhury, who works as part of a network of researchers to present fortnightly data on the humanitarian crisis associated with Covid-19 in India, writes about the current s...
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Abinash Dash Choudhury
30 June, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Covid-19, population, and pollution: A roadmap for the future
The impact of the ongoing Covid pandemic is turning out to be multidimensional, and among the long-run considerations that it has brought to the fore are population and pollution. In the run up to Wor...
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Shweta Gupta
Rishabh Mahendra
03 June, 2020
- Perspectives
Webinar video: The new Coronavirus and the Indian economy
The global pandemic has created a terrible trade-off for every country between an economic crisis caused by a shutdown of the economic activity and a health crisis and fatalities as the healthcare sys...
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Ashok Kotwal
02 June, 2020
- Videos
Covid-19: Mitigating the risk from reverse migration
One of the worst affected sections from India’s Covid-19 lockdown has been the migrant workers who have been left jobless, moneyless, and homeless. Though efforts are being made by several state gover...
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Ankita Gupta
Harsh Parikh
Kumar Subham
27 May, 2020
- Perspectives
Webinar: Impact of Covid-19 on informal and migrant workers in India
The International Growth Centre (IGC), in collaboration with I4I, organised a Webinar on 'The impact of Covid-19 on informal and migrant workers in India', with Jean Drèze (Ranchi University), Farzana...
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Farzana Afridi
Jean Drèze
Purnima Menon
Shahid Vaziralli
11 May, 2020
- Perspectives
How costly are flawed government responses to Covid-19? An assessment of the migrant crisis
By March-end, countless migrant workers started fleeing India’s locked-up cities and trekking home to their villages amidst the Covid-19 crisis. Sarmistha Pal argues that government’s responses until ...
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Sarmistha Pal
03 May, 2020
- Perspectives