27 August, 2018The role of informal rural healthcare providers in universal health coverage
Millions of private informal healthcare providers provide essential doorstep health services to rural households in India. The law has not succeeded in reducing the informal healthcare market as there...
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Abhijit Chowdhury Meenakshi Gautham Amod Kumar 
08 November, 2018
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National Nutrition Mission: Will it harmonise with India’s health and nutrition agenda?
India is home to 31% of all stunted children and half of all wasted children across the globe. Lately it took a major step in the direction of holistically addressing the mammoth multidimensional prob...
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Shweta Khandelwal
- 02 January, 2019
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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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