22 July, 2022Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover effects
Many low-income households in India have been pushed into poverty by high healthcare costs. Uptake of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government-run national health insurance programme for bel...
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Gabriella Conti Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena 
01 July, 2022
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Assessing the extent and fiscal cost of teacher shortages in India
The New Education Policy has proposed that the one million teacher vacancies in public elementary schools be filled imperatively. Using 2019-20 District Information System for Education (u-DISE) data,...
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Sandip Datta Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
- 22 June, 2022
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How RSBY impacted healthcare utilisation and spending
Social Health Insurance seeks to protect the poor from high health spending, and encourage healthcare utilisation. Analysing 2004-05 and 2011-12 Indian Human Development Survey data, this article find...
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Souvik Dutta Subhasree Sarkar
- 31 March, 2022
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On tackling child malnutrition
Is it the lack of information on nutrition given to mothers, or the lack of child care worker motivation that makes child malnutrition persist? This column cites results from a study undertaken in th...
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Prakarsh Singh
- 30 August, 2013
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Why are children in India so short?
Several scholars across disciplines provide converging evidence of the key role of open defecation in explaining child stunting in India. This column summarises the key themes of a recent conference a...
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Sangita Vyas
- 19 August, 2013
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What constrained the expansion of education in British India?
Education and human capital development were neglected in colonial India. This column explores how colonial policies interacted with local conditions to influence the trajectory of Indian education. ...
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Latika Chaudhury
- 22 July, 2013
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Micro-innovations in education
The poor quality of school teachers is widely acknowledged as a major obstacle to the educational success of children from low income families. STIR Education visited and spoke to over 3,000 teacher...
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Sharath Jeevan James Townsend
- 17 July, 2013
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Vocational education: A means to an end?
Youth underemployment, especially among less educated populations perpetuates poverty. Despite the importance of youth unemployment, there is little knowledge on how to create smooth school-to-work tr...
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Pushkar Maitra Subha Mani
- 15 July, 2013
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Cycling to School: Increasing High School Enrolment for Girls in Bihar
This project studies the impact of an innovative Programme in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrolment by providing girls who continued to secondary ...
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Karthik Muralidharan Nishith Prakash
- 01 June, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Tuberculosis control in India: More bang for bucks than simply saving lives
India has one of the world’s worst records on tuberculosis. This column presents recommendations for how to fight it more cost effectively.
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Ramanan Laxminarayan Arindam Nandi
- 27 May, 2013
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Educating India: Choice, autonomy and learning outcomes
The Indian education system does not effectively promote the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. This column argues that the degree of freedo...
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Parth J. Shah
- 22 May, 2013
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The invisible and urgent challenge of learning
While almost all six to fourteen year olds in India are enrolled in school, their performance is far below expected levels. The common view is that the problem can be addressed by filling gaps in the...
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Rukmini Banerji
- 20 May, 2013
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Distance and institutional deliveries in rural India
India has the highest rate of maternal deaths in the world. A major cause is that a significant proportion of women continue to deliver babies at home without the presence of a skilled attendant. This...
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Emily Dansereau Santosh Kumar Christopher Murray
- 19 April, 2013
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India's disputed ruling on pharmaceuticals and patents
On April 1 2013, the Supreme Court of India rejected the attempt by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company, to patent a new version of the leukemia drug Glivec. The verdict follows previous rulin...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 10 April, 2013
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Using evidence for better policy: The case of primary education in India
While India has achieved considerable success in increasing primary school enrolment and improving input-based measures of school quality over the past 10 years, learning outcomes continue to be abysm...
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Karthik Muralidharan
- 18 March, 2013
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