Covid-19: Willingness to vaccinate among slum-dwellers
Vaccination is among the success stories in modern-day medicine, and is seen by the WHO as a key element of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In this note, Augsburg et al. discuss findings from a...
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Alex Armand
Britta Augsburg
Antonella Bancalari
05 August, 2020
- Notes from the Field
Balancing corruption and exclusion: A rejoinder
The role of Aadhaar in reducing corruption in the PDS has been highly controversial. In a recent I4I article, Muralidharan et al. summarised the insights of their study of Aadhaar-based biometric auth...
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Jean Drèze
Reetika Khera
Anmol Somanchi
28 September, 2020
- Perspectives
How wide is the ‘sink of localism’ in India?
While spatial segregation based on caste or religion is a constitutive feature of social life in India, there have been very few systematic studies of it. This article presents central findings from t...
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Naveen Bharathi
Deepak Malghan
Andaleeb Rahman
18 January, 2021
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Straw men in the debate on basic income versus targeting
A universal basic income as a poverty-reduction policy is often contrasted unfavourably with targeted transfers. In this article, Martin Ravallion argues that five of the common arguments employed ag...
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Martin Ravallion
11 August, 2017
- Perspectives
Estimating intergenerational income mobility in rural India
For developing countries, it is difficult to find income mobility studies that rely on datasets linking parents with their children. Using a panel dataset spanning 1994-2012, this column presents imp...
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Shariq Mohammed
03 July, 2017
- Articles
Understanding livelihood resilience in Bihar
This column develops a livelihood resilience index including three key components – bio-physical, economic, and social resources – and estimates the index for districts in the state of Bihar.
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Surya Bhushan
K. V. Raju
16 June, 2017
- Articles
A proposal for universal basic services
In the context of the ongoing debate on the idea of a universal basic income for India, Prof. Himanshu of Jawaharlal Nehru University argues that we first need to ensure that all citizens have access...
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Himanshu .
21 May, 2017
- Perspectives
Price risk and poverty
There is an ongoing policy debate in India on whether grain entitlements under PDS should be converted into cash transfers. This column shows that in the face of high price variability, in-kind trans...
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Lucie Gadenne
Sam Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar
15 May, 2017
- Articles
Two views on fighting world poverty
In the previous article, Lant Pritchett critiqued Chris Blattman’s proposal to compare interventions that provide chickens rather than cash, and the view that the answer is the best investment we c...
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Chris Blattman
05 May, 2017
- Perspectives
Inequality and economics: Tony Atkinson's enduring lessons
Sir Tony Atkinson, the doyen of inequality economics, passed away in January. This article, by a longstanding friend and co-author, outlines his contributions to the analysis and measurement of inequ...
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Andrea Brandolini
25 April, 2017
- Articles
The decline of rural earning inequality in India
While earnings inequality remained virtually unchanged in urban India between 2004-05 and 2011-12, it declined sharply in rural India over this period. This column finds that although the change in t...
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Deepti Goel
Shantanu Khanna
Rene Morissette
05 April, 2017
- Articles
Disintermediating the State: Would a universal basic income reduce poverty more than targeted programmes?
Commenting on the discussion of the universal basic income in India’s Economic Survey 2016-17, Justin Sandefur contends that a modest version of UBI could potentially save money and shift expenditu...
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Justin Sandefur
31 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Getting kinky with chickens
In the context of Bill Gates’ commitment to chickens as a high-impact poverty intervention, Chris Blattman recently proposed a study to compare interventions that provide chicken rather than cash, ...
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Lant Pritchett
04 March, 2017
- Perspectives
Income inequality in a globalising world
Since the turn of the century, income inequality has risen to be among the most prominent policy issues of our time. This column looks at inequality trends in recent decades. While relative global in...
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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
Laurence Roope
Finn Tarp
17 February, 2017
- Articles
The tale and maths of universal basic income
Commenting on the discussion on universal basic income in the recently released Economic Survey, Jean Drèze argues that UBI is an idea whose time will come, but that time is still quite distant as f...
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Jean Drèze
15 February, 2017
- Perspectives
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Covid-19: What can be done immediately to help vulnerable population
With over 80% of India’s workforce employed in the informal sector and one-third working as casual labour, Covid-19's spread and subsequent unplanned lockdowns, have created economic havoc in the li...
Reetika Khera
25 March, 2020
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EWS reservation in higher education: Affirmative action or vote bank politics?
The Constitution (103rd Amendment) Act, 2019, provides for 10% reservation for the economically weaker sections (EWS) in higher educational institutions within the general category. In this post, Devi...
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11 September, 2019
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Lockdown, life, and livelihood in the times of Corona
After around 36 hours of the lockdown to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in India, the Finance Minister announced a slew of welfare measures amounting to Rs. 1.7 trillion to support the vulnerable popu...
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