15 April, 2020India’s battle against Covid-19: A comparative perspective
It has been suggested that, India could selectively relax the lockdown that has been imposed on it, given its favourable demographic profile. In this post, Ghosh and Pal argue that having a younger po...
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Sugata Ghosh Sarmistha Pal 
16 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Gender composition of children and sanitation behaviour
Open defecation has been linked to various public health issues and has gained significant policy attention. Nonetheless, research has shown that due to son preference, households in India underinvest...
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Deepak Saraswat
- 22 April, 2020
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How India can lead the world to build a functioning public health system
The world has not yet invested in a cadre of trustworthy, community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their tasks as professionals, despite the lessons from Ebola virus dis...
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Stuti Khemani
- 20 May, 2020
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Early life nutrition and future educational outcomes: Findings from ICDS
Integrated Child Development Services – India’s flagship child nutrition programme – has recently suffered a major cut in funding. This column shows that supplementary nutrition provided under t...
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Ramanan Laxminarayan Arindam Nandi
- 25 April, 2016
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Public health insurance for tertiary diseases: Lessons from Andhra's Aarogyasri programme
Private health insurance covering tertiary diseases is limited to the upper middle class in India. One reason for low take-up of publicly-financed health insurance among economically weaker sections i...
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Tarun Jain
- 12 April, 2016
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The less the merrier? Family size and education in India
In the face of financial constraints, children from larger families are expected to have relatively less education and poor health. This column explores the empirical relevance this ‘quantity-qualit...
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Adriana Kugler Santosh Kumar
- 01 April, 2016
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Social influences and public health insurance utilisation
In developing countries there are often limited formal sources of information about programme benefits or how to access them. Social networks might influence adoption by providing more programme inf...
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Tarun Jain
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Causes and consequences of low caloric intake in India: Nutrition, productivity, and cognition
Many of the world’s poor consume very few calories. Because calories are not just consumption, but also an input into production, this low consumption may dampen labour productivity and impede decis...
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Sendhil Mullainathan Heather Schofield
- 31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Self-reported health data: Issues and solutions
Health data from the National Sample Survey shows an increase in morbidity in India over the years. However, given that the data is self-reported, it is difficult to ascertain whether this indeed refl...
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Aparajita Dasgupta
- 23 March, 2016
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Improving maternal and child health through conditional cash transfers
Cash transfers to the poor, conditional on use of particular public services, are a popular tool to increase healthcare utilisation. This column evaluates the impact of one such scheme – Janani Sura...
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Sisir Debnath
- 21 March, 2016
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Reservation under RTE: Status of implementation and way forward
Section 12(1)(c) of the Right to Education Act, 2009, mandates that non-minority private unaided schools should reserve at least 25% of seats in entry-level grades for children from economically weak...
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Ambrish Dongre Ankur Sarin
- 11 January, 2016
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New Education Policy: Addressing institutional concerns
Failure of education policy has been attributed, at least in part, to implementation issues. In this article, Kiran Bhatty, Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research, contends that the poor sta...
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Kiran Bhatty
- 22 December, 2015
- Perspectives
Child development: How are Indian states faring?
The recent release of the ‘Rapid Survey On Children’ report presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at the state of Indian children. Based on a simple Child Development Index constructed for...
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Jean Drèze Reetika Khera
- 10 December, 2015
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New Education Policy: Incorporating a 'Right to Learn' Act
In this article, Geeta Kingdon, Professor of Education Economics and International Development, University College London, discusses some of the provisions of the Right to Education Act, 2009 that are...
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Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
- 04 December, 2015
- Perspectives
Five priorities for the New Education Policy
In this article, Ashish Dhawan, Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation, lays out five broad priorities for the New Education Policy – ensuring robust data on children’s learning, stren...
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Ashish Dhawan
- 27 November, 2015
- Perspectives
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Giving up too early on malnourished children? Catch-up growth and Midday Meals
It is widely believed that malnourishment in the first few years of childhood adversely affects cognition and adult economic outcomes. This column presents new research which shows that full recovery...
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011
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Ten steps to transform the quality of education in India
In this article, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director of Educational Initiatives, suggests 10 initiatives that can help transform the quality of education in India.
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