10 March, 2022I4I@10: Annual lecture and panel discussion
We invite you to join us on 22 December, 2022, as we bring to you Ideas for India’s annual lecture and panel discussion to celebrate 10 years of I4I! Featuring an in-person meeting for the first tim...
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I4I Team 
15 December, 2022
- Editors Corner
Role of history in shaping India’s economic development
As India is now completing 75 years of Independence, two big questions loom over the conversation around India’s economic development: How successful was the Indian economy before and during colonia...
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Bishnupriya Gupta Lakshmi Iyer
- 24 February, 2022
- Podcasts
Left and right: Examining the evolution of political ideologies
With the advent of globalisation, the struggle between the ‘left’ and ‘right’ – as defined in Marxian terms – rapidly evolved from one between economic ideologies, to cultural wars. In thi...
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Pranab Bardhan Ashok Kotwal
- 16 September, 2021
- Videos
T.N. Srinivasan: An economist for all seasons
In a tribute to Prof. T.N. Srinivasan, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes that the death of Prof. Srinivasan – the iconoclast who laid the intellectual groundwork for India’s economic reforms – marks ...
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Niranjan Rajadhyaksha
- 20 November, 2018
- Perspectives
T.N., fondly remembered
Prof. T.N. Srinivasan, an acclaimed Indian economist and Professor Emeritus at Yale University, passed away on 11 November in Chennai. In this post, Prof. Rohini Somanathan of the Delhi School of Econ...
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Rohini Somanathan
- 19 November, 2018
- Perspectives
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...
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Apurva Bamezai M.R. Sharan
- 12 September, 2018
- Perspectives
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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Jean Drèze
- 03 August, 2018
- Perspectives
Research, for whom?
In this note, Dr Abhay Bang discusses the importance of research in development. Giving examples from his 30 years of experience of working in the social sector, he contends that the power of knowledg...
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Abhay Bang
- 27 July, 2018
- Notes from the Field
On research in development economics
In an interview with a student at Fudan University, China, Dilip Mookherjee (Member of the I4I Editorial Board) discusses Chinese growth; India-China comparison; and research in development economics.
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Dilip Mookherjee
- 06 July, 2018
- Perspectives
Research gaps and policy priorities: Evidence from Bihar
The gap between research and policy priorities has always presented an enormous challenge both for academics and policymakers. With a scarcity of rigorous evidence in certain areas, this gap is partic...
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Kumar Das
- 09 May, 2018
- IGC Research on India
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
- Notes from the Field
Understanding cultural persistence and change
When does culture persist and when does it change? This column examines a determinant that has been put forth in the anthropology literature: the variability of the environment from one generation to...
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Paola Giuliano Nathan Nunn
- 07 March, 2018
- Articles
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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Jean Drèze
- 22 December, 2017
- Perspectives
Fundamental errors in the voting booth margins
Psychologists have long documented that we over-attribute people's actions to innate characteristics rather than to circumstances. This column shows that when we commit this ‘fundamental attribution...
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Edward Glaeser Giacomo Ponzetto
- 17 November, 2017
- Articles
Introducing a new feature: – ‘Explainers’
Our day-to-day lives are tossed around due to economic changes, resulting sometimes from government policies and sometimes by unidentifiable forces of the world economy. Governments always label every...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 16 October, 2017
- Perspectives
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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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There is growing interest in ‘embedded experiments’, conducted by researchers and policymakers as a team. Aside from their potential scale, the main attraction of these experiments is that they se...
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