In 2024, Ideas for India featured 196 research-based Articles, opinion-based Perspectives, and Notes From the Field, of which 57 were available in Hindi; hosted content from three conferences, and introduced two new content types. Some of the highlights are shared in this post.
This year, we launched two new in-house content types in the form of Policy Roundups and Synthesis Blogs Policy Roundup - discover these formats below:
- Policy Roundup: Delhi smog, US immigration, industrial policy by Nalini Gulati
- How social norms hold women back: A look at recent evidence by Nikita Mujumdar
The I4I Team attended three conferences bringing together researchers and policymakers - some of the ideas associated with these events can be viewed below:
- From LSE Enviroment Week: Female legislators and forest conservation by Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay, Naveen Hari, Bipasha Maity and Pranabes Probeshika Dutta
- From the India Policy Forum: Ideas@IPF2024 series: Research from NCAER’s India Policy Forum by Pradip Kumar Bagchi
- From the India Sustainable Growth Conference: Going green while being in the red by Parikshit Ghosh
In 2024, we hosted an edition of I4I Conversations featuring Sonalde Desai and Farzana Afridi discussing the challenges and opportunities pertaining to India’s demographic transition - the Conversation, and an accompanying synopsis, can be viewed below:
I4I Conversations: Managing India’s demographic transition
There have been a number of social and political developments in India this year - in June, a new government was formed at the Centre; in July, the Economic Survey of India, 2023-24 and Union Budget 2024-25 were released; in August, the rape and murder of an on-duty woman doctor at a Kolkata hospital sparked protests across the country. These themes and topics featured in many I4I posts, a selection of which is presented below:
- Why political competition matters when inequality is high by Anders Kjelsrud, Kalle Moene and Lore Vandewalle
- India’s poverty rate does not measure what you think it does by Joshua Merfeld and Jonathan Morduch
- Reporting of gender-based violence: Why public activism and dialogue matter by Abhilasha Sahay
Throughout the year, we also featured Perspectives and Notes from the Field, providing a platform for experts and practitioners to share their opinions and experiences - some of which are below:
- From numbers to impact: Learning from effective data management in Rajasthan by Avani Kapur and Sidharth Santhosh
- What explains policy change? Understanding the historical political economy of India by Rahul De
We rounded 2024 off with the 3rd Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture, delivered by Rohini Pande on ‘Voluntary Carbon Markets: Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Economies’ A recording of the event will be available on the I4I website and YouTube channel in 2025 - stay tuned!
Thank you to all our readers and contributors for supporting I4I throughout the year. We are now closed for Christmas and New Year, by will be back on 2 January 2025 with more content on growth and development, to promote evidence-based policy.
We wish you a happy holiday season, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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