Tag Search: “technology”
Policy Roundup: 1.5 degree breach, Trump’s America, ASER 2024
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the widespread negative effects of climate change and what can be done to mitig...
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Nalini Gulati
31 January, 2025
- Perspectives
Technological advancement and employment changes: Recent trends in India
What is the impact of rapid technological advancements on employment in the Indian economy? In this post, Kathuria and Dev analyse ‘Consumer Pyramids Household Survey’ data to explore this question. T...
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Aakash Dev
Rajat Kathuria
24 January, 2025
- Perspectives
Is digitalisation a double-edged sword for workers in India's public healthcare system?
While technology is often celebrated as a solution to healthcare inefficiencies, its impact on India’s Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) tells a more complex story. Drawing on qualitative res...
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Sreerupa .
13 January, 2025
- Notes from the Field
Digital gender divide amidst India’s service-led growth
While India’s growth in recent decades has been services-led, entering high-productivity business services requires an adequate supply of high-skilled workers. In this context, Isha Gupta discusses ho...
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Isha Gupta
07 October, 2024
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Patent protection in India: Impact on innovation, pricing and competition
When stronger patent laws were introduced in India, there were fears that it would lead to higher prices without substantial gains in innovation. This article provides evidence that stronger patent pr...
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Apoorva Gupta
Joel Stiebale
12 August, 2024
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India’s opportunity for sustainable growth
In the second post of a three-part blog series, Tim Dobermann and Nikita Sharma contend that it is important for India to choose a growth trajectory that prioritises raising living standards while min...
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Tim Dobermann
Nikita Sharma
30 April, 2024
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What ASER 2023 reveals about the gender gap in confidence
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2023 finds that although gender gaps in school enrolment have fallen over the years, girls still lag behind in terms of access to and use of digital techno...
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Suman Bhattacharjea
06 March, 2024
- Notes from the Field
A brighter future: Harnessing solar energy in a Jharkhand village
Simdega district in Jharkhand – one of NITI Aayog’s ‘Aspirational Districts’ – comprises small habitations that are not yet connected to grid-based electricity. In this note, Goswami and co-authors di...
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Sharmistha Baig
Animesh Ghosh
Anandjit Goswami
Rakesh Kacker
23 February, 2024
- Notes from the Field
Supporting women weavers: Learnings from producer companies
The lack of market demand and low earnings, as well as competition from power looms, has led to declining participation of artisans in India's handloom industry. In this note, Dang et al. share some i...
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Shreya Banerjee
Aastha Dang
Divya Pandey
Fatema Patel
25 October, 2023
- Notes from the Field
Home-based learning through low-cost mobile teaching: Findings from Odisha
Evaluating the effectiveness of a low-cost Home-Based Learning programme implemented during the Covid-19 school closures in Odisha, this article finds that it improved the mathematics and language lea...
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Manini Ojha
Kartik Yadav
12 October, 2023
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Collecting labour market statistics to study the platform economy
Although India has emerged as a leader in digital labour market platforms, there is a dearth of data about the gig economy. Neha Arya describes the efforts taken by the CMIE to collect data on platfor...
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Neha Arya
27 September, 2023
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A review of women’s engagement with digital labour market platforms
Summarising some findings from ongoing work being done as part of the DP-WEE project, Sneha Ganguly highlights how the emergence of digital labour platforms have the potential to improve women's acces...
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Sneha Ganguly
04 September, 2023
- Perspectives