Tag Search: “Technology”
Improving public service delivery by fixing payment systems
Fixing how funds flow through the government systems grabs far fewer headlines than malnutrition, problems in the education sector, or crumbling infrastructure. In this post, Charity Troyer Moore cont...
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Charity Troyer Moore
28 January, 2022
- Perspectives
Intellectual property rights and wage inequality
Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especially...
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Sourav Bhattacharya
Pavel Chakraborty
Chirantan Chatterjee
25 October, 2021
- Articles
Inequality, labour market trends, and the welfare State
All around the world, rising levels of inequality – particularly in the last 3-4 decades – have been recognised as a major issue. In this context, David Green (University of British Columbia) and Pari...
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Parikshit Ghosh
David Green
14 October, 2021
- Videos
Does access liberalise gender norms around phone use for rural women?
Despite improved connectivity, deep-rooted gender norms continue to shape access to and use of mobile technologies by women in India. This note discusses preliminary findings from a study, which sugge...
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Giorgia Barboni
Natalia Rigol
Simone Schaner
Natalie Theys
13 October, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Gendering technological change: Evidence from agricultural mechanisation
Rising mechanisation in Indian agriculture has been accompanied by reduction in farm employment in rural areas, particularly for women. This article shows that the observed 32 percentage point increas...
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Farzana Afridi
Monisankar Bishnu
Kanika Mahajan
14 July, 2021
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Fruits of liberation? Women’s work participation and adoption of household appliances
Does increase in women’s work participation lead to greater adoption of household appliances, or is it the other way round? To address this question, this article analyses US data from the Second Worl...
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Gautam Bose
Tarun Jain
Sarah Walker
28 May, 2021
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Can technology mitigate the impact of heat on worker productivity?
Exposure to high heat causes productivity losses, with reduction in cognitive function as a key channel. A direct reduction in heat exposure via technologies such as air conditioning is not possible f...
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Anna Custers
Prathap Kasina
Deepak Saraswat
Anjali P. Verma
16 April, 2021
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The digital dream: Upskilling India for the future
While the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace at which technology is becoming commonplace in our lives, it has also exposed a stark digital divide, leaving a large proportion of India’s populat...
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Venugopal Mothkoor
Fatima Mumtaz
23 March, 2021
- Perspectives
A world of no lockdowns: The case of South Korea and Sweden
While most of the world was under lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, two countries, Sweden and South Korea, decided to keep their economies open. In this post, Bhatia et al. use a metric o...
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Shritanjay Bhatia
Julia Brockley
Nikita Navaneeth
Utkarsh Sikka
Isha Trivedi
Sanna Uppal
15 March, 2021
- Perspectives
The Indian economy and policymaking: Towards ‘openness’
Providing his perspective on the recent policy paper by Subramanian and Felman, Nirvikar Singh contends that more emphasis is needed on financial reforms and innovation, addressing India’s export slow...
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Nirvikar Singh
29 January, 2021
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Debunking fake news among slum-dwellers
Urban slum-dwellers are among the groups that are most at-risk of Covid-19, and their precarious situation is further compounded by rampant misinformation regarding the Virus. Based on a survey of abo...
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Alex Armand
Britta Augsburg
Antonella Bancalari
21 January, 2021
- Articles
DRAMA at the farm gate
Describing the new ‘APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) Bypass Act’ as a ‘Dual Regulation of Agricultural Marketing Act’ or DRAMA, Jean Drèze argues that the legislation's odd framework of du...
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Jean Drèze
24 December, 2020
- Perspectives