20 December, 2023Enhancing secondary school learning: Role of remedial camps and teacher flexibility
A key dilemma in Indian education is that while children are enrolled in school, they are not actually learning. Based on an experiment in Odisha, this article explores possible solutions to the learn...
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Sabrin Beg Anne Fitzpatrick Jason Kerwin Adrienne Lucas Khandker Wahedur Rahman 
08 April, 2024
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Improving healthcare access to address the rise in non-communicable diseases among Indian women
In light of the changing healthcare burden for women, with a rise in mortality due to non-communicable diseases, Bhan and Shukla outline the incidence of diseases in Indian states over the last two de...
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Nandita Bhan Prajakta Pradip Shukla
- 22 December, 2023
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The ‘invisible’ disability of mental illness: Barriers to social security access
Sakshi Sharda writes about the how a lack of clarity on the assessment and diagnosis of mental health and poor implementation of social security schemes increases the vulnerability of those livings wi...
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Sakshi Sharda
- 10 October, 2023
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Health policy and economic growth in India
A new synthesis paper (Menon 2017) produced by the International Growth Centre brings together evidence from various health-related IGC studies on India undertaken over the past seven years, to draw i...
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Nalini Gulati Nidhiya Menon
- 27 July, 2017
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Why doesn’t anybody know if Swachh Bharat Mission is succeeding?
In 2014, the Prime Minister announced a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019. In this article, Coffey and Spears, contend that now almost two-thirds of the way through the Swachh Bharat Mission...
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Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 10 July, 2017
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Language and development
Language choice is central to organisation of society, transmission of knowledge, and interpersonal communication, and hence, has implications for socioeconomic inequality. This column examines the co...
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David D. Laitin Rajesh Ramachandran
- 05 July, 2017
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Building institutional capacity for rural sanitation in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state with about 200 million people, has historically not performed well on sanitation. In this article, Mariappa Kullappa of the World Bank Water Global Practic...
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Mariappa Kullappa
- 29 June, 2017
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Good monsoon, bad test scores? Substituting away from schooling
Good monsoons in India raise agricultural productivity and hence, bring added work and higher wages. Is this extra work at the expense of schooling for poor children? This column finds that increased ...
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Manisha Shah Bryce Millett Steinberg
- 27 June, 2017
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Zika virus: Is it a potential threat to India?
The WHO recently reported the first three laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika virus disease in India – all in the state of Gujarat. In this article, public health consultant Kaushik Bharati discusses...
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Kaushik Bharati
- 09 June, 2017
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Assam's Brahmaputra Community Radio Station: Innovation in health communication
River Brahmaputra which flows across the Northeast Indian state of Assam, carves out a network of nearly 2,300 islands, isolating them from the mainland and excluding their inhabitants from access to ...
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Anjali Mariam Paul
- 12 May, 2017
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Moving towards a principles-based drug retail policy in India?
The health ministry has proposed a new e-platform for tracking the country’s entire drug supply chain, including online sales. In this article, Smriti Sharma and Amey Sapre contend that the e-platfo...
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Amey Sapre Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 02 May, 2017
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Leaving stunting behind: Evidence from ethnic Indians in England
Despite impressive rates of economic growth in recent decades, India remains one of the worst-performing countries worldwide in terms of height, among children and adults. This column shows that heigh...
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Caterina Alacevich Alessandro Tarozzi
- 27 April, 2017
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Smart policy for women's economic empowerment in South Asia
In this article, Jennifer Johnson and Nalini Gulati highlight the different trajectories of women’s economic empowerment across South Asia, based on a recent policy dialogue hosted by Evidence for ...
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Nalini Gulati Jennifer Johnson
- 18 April, 2017
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On Delhi's mohalla clinics
The Delhi government planned to set up 1,000 mohalla or community clinics in the state by end-2016, but only one-tenth of the target was met in the proposed timeline. In this article, public health ex...
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Chandrakant Lahariya
- 16 April, 2017
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Kanyashree Prakalpa in West Bengal: Justification and evaluation
Kanyasree Prakalpa is a conditional cash transfer scheme of the Government of West Bengal that offers scholarship to adolescent girls for continuing education and remaining unmarried until the age of ...
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Arijita Dutta Anindita Sen
- 31 March, 2017
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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011
The 2011 Indian Census data show a higher growth rate of Muslim population compared to the Hindu population. This article provides an in-depth picture of Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials at the di...
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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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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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