06 July, 2018The particulars of social policy in India: Evidence, State capacity, and policy design
Economist-activist Jean Drèze has argued that economists are no better equipped to comment on development policy design than other social science researchers and other stakeholders, and that policyma...
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Apurva Bamezai M.R. Sharan 
12 September, 2018
- Perspectives
Winner of Infosys Prize 2018 in Social Sciences: Sendhil Mullainathan
The Infosys Prize 2018 for Social Sciences has been awarded to Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, University of Chicago, for his path-breaking work in behavioural e...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 21 November, 2018
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Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze
I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time...
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Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
- 28 March, 2018
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Case study on successful land acquisitions in Bihar
This project addresses the question of compensation policies for rural communities that lose their traditional lands and livelihoods to make way for business (e.g., industry, commercial agriculture, u...
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Maitreesh Ghatak Sandip Mitra Dilip Mookherjee
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
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Evidence, policy, and politics
Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he bel...
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- 03 August, 2018
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The particulars of social policy in India: Evidence, State capacity, and policy design
Economist-activist Jean Drèze has argued that economists are no better equipped to comment on development policy design than other social science researchers and other stakeholders, and that policyma...
- Apurva Bamezai M.R. Sharan
- 12 September, 2018
- Perspectives
Economics among the road scholars
Jholawala Economics’ is a derogatory term that the urban elites use to dismiss the arguments of social activists without having to contend with them. However, some of the jholawalas are indeed first...
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- 22 December, 2017
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