27 February, 2017The State’s frontline workers: An overlooked human resource
The Covid-19 and the related lockdown have focused the nation's attention on two groups of people who number in millions but have still somehow not received adequate attention: the migrant informal wo...
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Vishwanath Giriraj 
15 April, 2020
- Notes from the Field
India’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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Income risks and schooling investment in rural Bihar
Income and earnings are highly volatile in developing countries as a majority of the population relies on agriculture or informal jobs for their livelihood. Based on a primary survey in rural Bihar, t...
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Alok Kumar
- 17 September, 2018
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National Health Stack: A job half well-done
To support the implementation of the recently launched National Health Protection Scheme, NITI Aayog has proposed the creation of digital infrastructure called National Health Stack. In this post, Smr...
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Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 10 September, 2018
- Perspectives
How retail drug markets in poor countries develop
We need effective, affordable medicines to confront the alarming burden of infectious diseases in the developing world. However, many of the drugs for sale in developing countries are of poor quality....
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Daniel Bennett Wes Yin
- 07 September, 2018
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Maternal health services utilisation: Has the rich-poor gap declined?
Various studies have noted that vast inequalities – economic and socio-demographic – exist in maternal, newborn, and child health outcomes and utilisation of care services. In this post, Sohini Pa...
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Sohini Paul
- 29 August, 2018
- Perspectives
Designing India’s national healthcare protection: Challenges and opportunities
The burden of non-communicable diseases, requiring costly hospital-based treatment, is increasing in India, and only 15% of the population has health insurance coverage. The Modi government recently i...
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Sisir Debnath Tarun Jain Dibya Mishra Revathy Suryanarayana
- 27 August, 2018
- Perspectives
How sanitation facilities in schools can improve educational outcomes
The Indian government launched the School Sanitation and Hygiene Education programme in 1999 to build latrines in schools. Analysing data from nearly 140,000 schools in 2003 - some of which received a...
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Anjali Adukia
- 20 August, 2018
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Expected income support and child health
Government of India’s maternity support programme – Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana – seeks to provide income support to pregnant women and lactating mothers in rural India. Evaluating the p...
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Prabhat P. Ghosh Anjini Kochar
- 17 August, 2018
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Are we prepared for the future of work?
Given the threat of jobs displacement on account of the rise of automation and artificial intelligence, it has become crucial to develop a high-quality labour force with advanced cognitive skills. In ...
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Raavi Aggarwal
- 13 August, 2018
- Perspectives
C-section deliveries and the role of the private health sector in India
India, like the rest of the world, is witnessing an upward trend in caesarean-section (C-section) deliveries – with the proportion of C-section deliveries rising even faster in private health facili...
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Ambrish Dongre Mitul Surana
- 23 July, 2018
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Can double-fortified salt in school mid-day meals help reduce anaemia?
Micronutrient malnutrition is a major risk factor for more than half of the daily under-five deaths in India. It leads to iron-deficiency anaemia, which especially affects pregnant women, and young an...
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Marion Kraemer Santosh Kumar Abhijeet Kumar Sebastian Vollmer
- 27 June, 2018
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Financial incentives and the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in India
Fertility reduction and a gender-balanced population often appear to be conflicting objectives in countries with persistent son preference and easy access to sex-selection technology, as targeting one...
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S. Anukriti
- 25 June, 2018
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How can immigrant scientists give back to their homelands?
In addition to contributing to their adopted countries, immigrant scientists have potential to use their talents to give back to their homelands. In this context, Madhukar Pai shares his personal expe...
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Madhukar Pai
- 14 June, 2018
- Perspectives
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