The gendered employment effects of mobile internet access in developing countries
In the third post of I4I’s month-long campaign to mark International Women’s Day 2023, Goldberg and Chiplunkar look at 3G internet coverage in 14 countries, and find that access to mobile internet...
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Gaurav Chiplunkar
Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
10 March, 2023
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Bringing skilling and productive employment closer to women
On International Women’s Day, Farzana Afridi considers a key issue in the creation of good jobs for women – the provision of skilling. She discusses the lack of physical and financial access to sk...
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Farzana Afridi
08 March, 2023
- Perspectives
Formalisation of informal manufacturing enterprises in India
Employment in India’s organised manufacturing sector has grown rapidly since 2004. This article finds that about 15% of this growth can be attributed to the formalisation of previously informal ente...
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Bishwanath Goldar
01 March, 2023
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...
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Farzana Afridi
12 March, 2018
- Symposium
Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Debraj Ray
In this podcast, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) speaks with Debraj Ray (Julius Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and ...
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Parikshit Ghosh
Debraj Ray
13 February, 2018
- Podcasts
Let Them Buy Light: The Welfare Benefits of Electricity for Rural Households and Enterprises
This project measured the welfare effects of increased access to electricity for rural households and micro-enterprises by letting them buy light. The research design experimentally offers off-grid, s...
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Robin Burgess
Michael Greenstone
Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan
08 August, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Smart data: Can visualised administrative data help inform and hold public stakeholders accountable?
The project examined how interactive data visualisations can be used to present administrative data in a way that is easily digestible, lends itself to exploration and provides a clear link to require...
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Eric Dodge
Charity Troyer Moore
Rohini Pande
31 March, 2016
- IGC Research on India
The Benefits of Solar Technology Adoption for Street Vendors in Bihar
This project evaluates the socio-economic impact of distributing solar lighting to street vendors in urban Bihar, in collaboration with a local civil society organization (NIDAN). The findings of the...
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David Szakonyi
Johannes Urpelainen
31 January, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Intervention design of Integrated Performance Management System (IPMS) for ICDS
Leakages from the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) have compromised the effectiveness of the programme. The study proposed a new design for an effective monitoring system for the ICDS progra...
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Ronald Abraham
Andrew Fraker
15 September, 2014
- IGC Research on India
Schematic Natural Hazard Zonation of Bihar using Geoinformatics
The objective of this prooject was to understand the occurrence of natural hazards in Bihar. The output of this project may act as a basis for the formulation of Natural Hazards Preparedness Plan to m...
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Tuhin Ghosh
Anirban Mukhopadhyay
01 February, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Manufacturing, management and mysteries
The private sector is crucial to India’s development. This column asks how it can be more effective. Looking at a large sample of Indian manufacturers it suggests that what many firms may be missing...
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Nirvikar Singh
27 July, 2012
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
Siddhartha Mitra
25 July, 2018
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Tripura’s bamboo sector: Potential and challenges
About a third of the total area of Tripura is covered by bamboo, and bamboo has emerged as a key thrust area for the state’s industrial development. Based on a field visit that was undertaken to stu...
Bornali Bhandari
13 April, 2018
- Notes from the Field
An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric ...
Subhashis Banerjee
Subodh V. Sharma
24 September, 2018
- Perspectives