06 January, 2020Expanding opportunities in India’s labour market: Gender, skills, and migration
In September 2019, the International Growth Centre (IGC) organised a panel discussion in New Delhi to bring together experts to deliberate on the evidence around the causes of low female labour force ...
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Nalini Gulati Ella Spencer 
27 January, 2020
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Fifteen years of gender budgeting in India: A Retrospective
In this year’s Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that she will constitute a committee to evaluate 15 years of gender budgeting. It entails looking at the budget through the...
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Ashok Lahiri
- 29 October, 2019
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Learning to cooperate in a culture of honour
In many parts of the world, we observe persistent dysfunction in learning to cooperate around common interests. Cultural differences – ideas of what constitutes an insult and what an appropriate res...
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Karla Hoff
- 20 February, 2019
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Women empowerment in nutrition : Ideas of empowerment
As part of the ‘Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index’ project, a group of researchers spoke with rural women and community workers from Araria in Bihar, and Ganjam, Rayagada, Kandhmal, and Na...
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Sudha Narayanan
- 13 September, 2017
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Women empowerment in nutrition: Do women really have a say in preparing and providing food?
Decision-making capacity of women within the household and in the community is considered to be a reflection of their empowerment. In this note, Sweta Bhusan discusses one dimension of decision-makin...
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Sweta Bhusan
- 13 September, 2017
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Women empowerment in nutrition: Ideas of empowerment
As part of the ‘Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index’ project, a group of researchers spoke with rural women and community workers from Araria in Bihar, and Ganjam, Rayagada, Kandhmal, and Nay...
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Sudha Narayanan
- 12 September, 2017
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How female foeticide has influenced fertility and parental investments in girls
The introduction of ultrasound technology in India has been documented to have led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female fetuses. However, this column finds that it also decreased son-biased ...
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S. Anukriti Sonia Bhalotra Hiu Fung
- 11 September, 2017
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Encountering deprivations in the field
Several women in India face domestic violence, are not allowed to work, and need to seek permission from husbands or in-laws to carry out basic tasks. In this note, Singhal and Vernekar share their e...
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Karan Singhal Nisha Vernekar
- 07 September, 2017
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Quota policies and career advancement: Evidence from Indian politics
Can quotas for women in politics induce institutional change in the long run? This column examines whether affirmative action for women in Indian local government had spillovers into state and nation...
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Stephen D O'Connell
- 28 August, 2017
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The demographic impact of extended paid maternity leave in Bangladesh
In March 2017, Indian Parliament passed the Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill, 2016 extending paid maternity leave to 26 weeks. This column analyses the impact of extension of paid maternity leave i...
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Salma Ahmed
- 14 June, 2017
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Cash transfers to end child marriage: The Indian experience
For over two decades, policymakers in India have been experimenting with conditional cash transfers to address the issue of child marriage. In this article, Amin et al. contend that financial incenti...
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Sajeda Amin M Niaz Asadullah Sara Hossain Zaki Wahhaj
- 10 April, 2017
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Holy wars: Temple desecrations in medieval India
The rise of extremist groups such as the Taliban and the Islamic State, and their destruction of religious relics, have led some to magnify the presence of religious bigotry in Islamic societies. Usi...
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Sriya Iyer Anand Shrivastava Rohit Ticku
- 27 March, 2017
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Getting India's women into the workforce: Time for a smart approach
In this article, Rohini Pande, the Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, contends that raising India’s stubbornly low rate of female labour force participation will r...
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Rohini Pande
- 10 March, 2017
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Women and work in Asia: Insights for India's low female labour force participation
In this article, Sher Singh Verick, Deputy Director, ILO’s Decent Work Team for South Asia and Country Office for India, shows how India compares with other countries in Asia as well as with other ...
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Sher Singh Verick
- 08 March, 2017
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Declining female labour force participation in rural India: The demand side
National Sample Survey data shows a decline in rural women’s workforce participation between 2004-05 and 2011-12. Rising rural incomes and women’s education over the same period have been taken a...
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Sonalde Desai
- 07 March, 2017
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In South Asia, low child sex ratios are increasingly an isolated Indian phenomenon. Within India, child sex ratios are ‘normal’ among Christians and Muslims but much lower among Hindus, Sikhs, and...
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Some Indian states debar individuals with more than two children from contesting local elections. This column finds that while the law has significantly reduced fertility among the general population...
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Over the last 60 years, India’s Constitution has set aside seats in parliament for people from historically discriminated groups, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. This column documents one...
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