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Women and development in India: Slow progress in West Bengal
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Women and development in India: A success story from Keonjhar
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Can workfare programmes moderate violence? Evidence from India
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“Before you can do the social spending, you have to find the money for it” –...
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Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar, mobile platforms: An anti-poverty system in peril?
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Top 10 challenges for India in 2013
Hemal Shah asked LSE academics and Indian journalists, parliamentarians, policy analysts, and economists what challenges India should prepare to tackle in the new year. Here’s what they said… 1....
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Closing the gap? The rural-urban divide in India
In a recent IGC working paper, Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri examine the gaps between rural and urban India in terms of education attainment, occupation choices, consumption and wages. A topic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Indian labour market reform: What it means for economic growth and inflation
LSE’s Rajeev Sibal argues that labour market restrictions constitute the largest drag on Indian economic performance. After strong economic performance until 2010-11, the Indian rate of growth slipped...
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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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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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