Tag Search: “public service delivery”
Promoting women in grassroots governance: Strategies that work
There are more than a million women elected to the Panchayati Raj Institutions of local governance in India. Despite constitutional provisions, women face many barriers when they participate in local ...
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Madhu Joshi
14 November, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Food subsidy – PDS, cash, or both?
Should food subsidies – currently availed in the form of subsidised cereals – be given out in the form of cash instead? In this post, Krishna and Agrawal contend that rather than asking this binary qu...
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Tushar Agrawal
Anirudh Krishna
31 October, 2018
- Perspectives
Anganwadi: A workforce of women with a near-impossible mandate
With a workforce of 1.4 million women, the Anganwadi system forms the backbone of India’s Integrated Child Development Services Scheme – the world’s largest community-based programme for child develop...
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G. Ananthapadmanabhan Guruswamy
Kavitha Kuruganti
26 October, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Providing information on school quality in a dysfunctional public education system
Insufficient school accountability and limited parental awareness of school quality can result in poor learning outcomes of students. This article reports the results of a randomised experiment in rur...
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Farzana Afridi
18 October, 2018
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An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric ...
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Subhashis Banerjee
Subodh V. Sharma
24 September, 2018
- Perspectives
Enhancing nutrition among the poor: UBI vs. welfare programmes
Some proponents of universal basic income (UBI) for India believe that the unconditional cash transfer should replace existing welfare programmes. Based on analysis of National Sample Survey data, thi...
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Ranjan Ray
Kompal Sinha
28 May, 2018
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Aadhaar that doesn’t exclude
Aadhaar is in the news today partly because of security concerns and partly because of reports that the poor are unable to receive PDS rations because of failures in Aadhaar authentication. In this ar...
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Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
11 April, 2018
- Perspectives
Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze
I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time. The...
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Jean Drèze
Ashok Kotwal
28 March, 2018
- Notes from the Field
Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-producti...
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Farzana Afridi
12 March, 2018
- Symposium
Social Networks, Property Rights and Public Services in the Slums of Patna and Jaipur
This project provides important original insight into the factors that condition the capacity of the urban poor to achieve formal recognition of slums, private property rights, and better public servi...
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Anirudh Krishna
Erik Wibbels
28 January, 2018
- IGC Research on India
India's plan to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025: Converting rhetoric into reality
During the 2017 Union Budget address, the Government of India announced its plan to eliminate tuberculosis (TB) by 2025, which is extraordinarily ambitious given that India accounts for a large propor...
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Soumyadeep Bhaumik
Soumitra Bhuyan
Madhukar Pai
24 January, 2018
- Perspectives
For no more Gorakhpur
In August 2017, the media was splashed with the grim news of the tragic deaths of children at a hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, owing to alleged medical negligence. In this article, Chandrakant ...
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Chandrakant Lahariya
17 January, 2018
- Perspectives