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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Insights from long-term studies of Indian villages
Much of our knowledge of change in rural areas depends on longitudinal village studies. Drawing upon a number of village studies carried out over the years in India, this column provides a broad pict...
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Himanshu .
Praveen K. Jha
Gerry Rodgers
23 September, 2016
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Universal basic income: The best way to welfare
Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics at MIT, suggests replacing welfare schemes of the government by a single universal basic income, which entitles every adult resident to a minimum weekly incom...
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Abhijit Banerjee
16 September, 2016
- Perspectives
How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality in poverty measures in India?
Poverty measurement at the household level assumes that the poverty status of all household members, irrespective of age and gender, is the same as that of the household. This column presents a frame...
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Stephan Klasen
Rahul Lahoti
01 August, 2016
- Articles
The 'poverty line' - III
In the last of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, discusses how the official methodology of poverty meas...
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S. Subramanian
27 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The 'poverty line' - II
In the second of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, argues that there is a built-in incentive for officia...
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S. Subramanian
26 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The 'poverty line' - I
In the first of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, contends that the term should not be bandied about fr...
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S. Subramanian
25 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Afterword: What lies ahead for MNREGA?
In an afterword to the e-symposium on ‘10 years of MNREGA and the way forward’, I4I Editor Farzana Afridi contends that the evidence summarised in the e-symposium suggests that MNREGA is not merel...
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Farzana Afridi
28 March, 2016
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MNREGA, 10 years on: Glass half-full or half-empty?
In this article, Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics and Policy at the University of Manchester, evaluates whether MNREGA has achieved its broader development objectives. He further analyses...
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Kunal Sen
18 March, 2016
- Perspectives
MNREGA: Technology vs. technocracy
In this article, Reetika Khera, Associate Professor of Economics at IIT Delhi, argues that for MNREGA to flourish in the future, technologies that empower workers should be encouraged, and the tenden...
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Reetika Khera
17 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Four key administrative reforms to strengthen MNREGA
In this article, Ashwini Kulkarni of NGO Pragati Abhiyan, discusses four key administrative reforms that can strengthen the implementation of MNREGA, and enable the programme to fulfill its objectives...
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Ashwini Kulkarni
17 March, 2016
- Perspectives
MNREGA: Vision and reality
In this article, Martin Ravallion, Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, contends that the main proximate reason for MNREGA’s disappointing performance is that many people in poor areas ...
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Martin Ravallion
16 March, 2016
- Perspectives
MNREGA and its assets
Critics of MNREGA believe that the programme is a dole to dig a hole and hence, a huge waste of resources and that it would be better to simply provide cash. In this article, Sudha Narayanan, Associa...
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Sudha Narayanan
15 March, 2016
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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...
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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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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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