04 September, 2025Kerala’s silent crisis: Educated youth, but locked out of work
Despite performing well in terms of educational access and attainment, the southern state of Kerala exhibits very high rates of youth who are not in education, employment, or training. Based on qualit...
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Isha Gupta 
28 August, 2025
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When fathers migrate: Does It benefit or disrupt left-behind children’s education?
While studies have explored the impact of male out-migration on left-behind women, there is limited evidence on the effects on children. Analysing data from eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, this artic...
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Pintu Paul
- 04 August, 2025
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Making vocational training more effective at improving youth employment outcomes
Youth unemployment remains a significant challenge in India, with large-scale public skilling programmes achieving limited success in improving labour-market outcomes. This article explains the approa...
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Evan Borkum Irina Cheban Edith Felix
- 16 July, 2025
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Covid-19: Does obesity play a role?
Overnutrition is a major public health issue in India. Being overweight or obese has been linked to the development of health conditions that make individuals more susceptible to severe illness due to...
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Archana Dang Indrani Gupta
- 28 June, 2021
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Saas, bahu, and ASHA: Information diffusion in rural Bihar
India has made significant progress in improving maternal and child health outcomes, and the contribution of ASHAs – female community health workers – in promoting healthcare-seeking behaviour is ...
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Mousumi Dutta Saswata Ghosh Zakir Husain
- 16 June, 2021
- Notes from the Field
Gender pay gap in India’s health workforce
Despite constituting almost half of the qualified health workforce in India, female health workers face a visible gender pay gap and lack of conducive work conditions. In this post Arushi Pandey exami...
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Arushi Pandey
- 09 June, 2021
- Perspectives
Economic consequences of Covid-19 lockdowns: Lessons from India’s first wave
As India combats the second wave of Covid-19, the impact on economic activity remains a major concern. Drawing lessons from the first wave in 2020, this article provides an assessment of how containme...
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Robert C M Beyer Tarun Jain Sonalika Sinha
- 08 June, 2021
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Informing youth about job opportunities to make training programmes more effective
Launched in 2014 by the central government, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana seeks to provide skills-based training to rural, marginalised youth, and to place them in salaried jobs. Base...
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Wiji Arulampalam Bhaskar Chakravorty Clément Imbert Roland Rathelot
- 06 May, 2021
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IGC Webinar: The impact of Covid-19 in India and pathways to recovery
The ongoing Covid-19 health crisis has affected lives across the world, and caused a massive economic shock. To help policy stakeholders and the general audience understand the socioeconomic impact of...
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I4I Team
- 20 April, 2021
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Dynamics of achievement gap between public and private school students
The achievement gap between public and private school students is well-documented in the literature on education in India, but there has not been sufficient focus on the dynamics of this gap over time...
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Gaurav Dhamija Ian K. McDonough Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 19 April, 2021
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Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: Trends across states, over time
Delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccine against Covid-19 despite its availability, is a key hindrance in achieving optimal vaccination coverage among populations around the globe. Using data from a ...
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Soumi Roy Chowdhury Abhinav Motheram Santanu Pramanik
- 14 April, 2021
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Book review: India’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic
The Indian government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has drawn polarising reactions, mostly set within a restrictive ‘success-failure’ metric. In this post, Oommen C Kurian reviews the book...
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Oommen C Kurian
- 08 April, 2021
- Perspectives
Women left behind: Gender disparities in utilisation of government health insurance
Equity in healthcare is a key goal of health policy in India. Analysing administrative data from Rajasthan, this article highlights substantial gender gaps in the utilisation of subsidised hospital ca...
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Pascaline Dupas Radhika Jain
- 07 April, 2021
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Understanding India’s mental health crisis
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, several reports have indicated a worsening of mental health issues among individuals across age groups. In this post, Michele Mary Bernadine examines the stat...
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Michele Mary Bernadine
- 06 April, 2021
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Teacher-student gender matching and learning outcomes
Studies have found positive effects of teacher-student gender matching on students’ learning outcomes in certain countries. Based on a theoretical model – tested empirically with survey data from ...
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Sukanta Bhattacharya Aparajita Dasgupta Kumarjit Mandal Anirban Mukherjee
- 22 March, 2021
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