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Women and development in India: Slow progress in West Bengal
In this special three-part series, the Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellows report from the field about what development means to women in some of the most remote parts of India. What is the...
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Women and development in India: Empowering women in Jharkhand
In conversation with Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow Belmati Jonko, Bahrin Bhuyinya, a resident of the Khunti district in Jharkhand, shares her story. While she feels that the village has...
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Women and development in India: A success story from Keonjhar
The final narrative in this three-part series on what development means for women in India comes from Keonjhar in Odisha. Despite facing deprivation and setbacks early in life, Basanti Naik today...
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Can workfare programmes moderate violence? Evidence from India
Thiemo Fetzer explores whether rural employment schemes under MGNREGA can have a moderating impact on insurgency violence. India has faced many internal security challenges since its independence. In...
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Wrong numbers: A (mis)leading attack on NREGA
On October 23rd Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya argued Modi is right to confine NREGA to the 200 poorest districts. Dilip Abreu, Pranab Bardhan, Maitreesh Ghatak, Ashok Kotwal, Dilip Mookherjee...
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“Before you can do the social spending, you have to find the money for it” –...
During a recent visit to LSE, Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, spoke to Sonali Campion about his views on the need for liberalisation to support social spending in...
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Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar, mobile platforms: An anti-poverty system in peril?
Silvia Masiero discusses the usage of the JAM trinity (Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar, and mobile platforms) in the prospected move from existing anti-poverty programmes to a system based on cash transfers....
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The Modi Government’s latest budget is a UPA-III Budget that tinkers at the...
Last week the 2016 Budget was announced, with the usual fanfare and ensuing cacophony of commentary. But Maitreesh Ghatak writes that there are two groups of people whose voices will not be heard in...
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What new spend on MGNREGA exposes about the notes ban
Maitreesh Ghatak reflects on the current economic scenario following demonetisation, its shifting stated objectives and how this was reflected in the Union Budget. He writes that the expanded budget...
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“The private sector is much more likely to misuse Aadhar than the...
In May 2018, LSE South Asia Centre hosted a workshop where Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, discussed why Indian democracy doesn’t to deliver more....
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