IGC India

Analysing 2004-05 & 2011-12 IHDS data, study finds that Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana led to⬆️in likelihood of hospitalisation for long-term illness, doctor visits for short-term illness & out-of-pocket health expenditure &⬇️in no. of days lost to illness ideasforindia.in/topics/human-d…

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Watch the 7th edition of I4I Conversations with Dr Pronab Sen (@IGC_IndiaBihar) & Prof Ashok Kotwal (I4I; @UBC) as they dissect the various policies & proposals in the Budget & deliberate on the outlook for the Indian Economy ideasforindia.in/topics/macroec…

What have we learned from the #pandemic? Some definitive answers from people working on the ground. Listen to their stories at... Zoom Link–bit.ly/3rcl9v2 @Mint_Lounge @leofsaldanha @MadhuraFAS @gita_sen @IGC_IndiaBihar @washingtonpost @thakurfdn @anjela_taneja @HAQCRC

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🇿🇲 Yesterday, IGC's Director Paul Collier, Executive Director Jonathan Leape & @ShahrukhWani met with His Excellency @HHichilema, President of Zambia. It was a pleasure to host the President & his delegation @LSEnews for an insightful conversation about future engagements.

A survey conducted between October 2020 & January 2021 w/ a sample of 1,613 households in 12 villages across 7 districts of Bihar gathered evidence on the experience of rural households in Bihar during & following the 1st wave of #COVID19 Read more: bit.ly/3vRIl2e

Measuring caste inequality across Indian states - Poulumi Chakrabarti @Poulomi_DC @queensu ideasforindia.in/topics/social-…

Only 10% of the population in India were fully vaccinated against #COVID19 by early August of this year. @kumarsankar_d & @Bijeta27 outline a 5-point target-based approach to overcoming #VaccineHesitancy in the country in a new IGC blog ⤵️ theigc.org/blog/the-growi…

Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee @MITEcon @JPAL recently delivered the inaugural Shaibal Gupta Memorial Lecture for @ADRIPatna. In the run-up to #IndependenceDay2021, listen to this audio from his talk, on the role of history in development economics ideasforindia.in/topics/miscell…

She wins: Electing women in ethnically divided societies - Arindam Banerjee @arindam_87 Kunal Singh @KunalSingh5 (@pdag_india), Sayan Banerjee @sayanbpolitics (@UVA), Charles Hankla (@GeorgiaStateU), Anjali Thomas Bohlken @anjalit2020 (@NunnSchoolGT) ideasforindia.in/topics/governa…

If you’re a PhD researcher, seeking feedback for your paper on gender, please feel free to message me. I love it: learning from your work, sharing my analysis & constructively improving our knowledge of what drives progress towards gender equality. 📚📊📈📖📝🤨🤯🙋‍♀️🖍🖌

Gendering technological change: Evidence from agricultural mechanisation - Farzana Afridi, Monisankar Bishnu @MoniBishnu (ISI Delhi Centre), Kanika Mahajan @kanmahajan (@AshokaUniv) ideasforindia.in/topics/agricul…

यूपी के #PopulationControlBill की शुरुआत के साथ, @s_anukriti और @EconAbhishek के इस लेख से पता चलता है कि इस प्रकार के कानून से जहाँ सामान्य जनता के बीच प्रजनन दर गिरी है, वहीं लैंगिक अनुपात बिगड़ गया है। @Pop_Council #WorldPopulationDay2021 ideasforindia.in/topics/social-…

Share of population living in absolute poverty in India has reduced from 45% to 20% but there continue to be large & widening inequalities. Analysing NSS microdata, study estimates ‘locational premiums’ residents earn by belonging to a richer sub-region ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

Thank you everyone for joining us for the IGC CDS Patna Summer School 2021

As Maharashtra state introduces 3 bills to counter #FarmLaws, including assurance of trade above MSP, read this #I4IArchives post where @sirajnoida contends that Centre’s assurance of wheat/paddy procurement at MSP should be backed by a written order ideasforindia.in/topics/agricul…

Grandads, dads, and sons: Examining multigenerational mobility in India - Anustup Kundu @anustup_kundu (@helsinkiuni), Kunal Sen @kunalsen5 (@UNUWIDER) ideasforindia.in/topics/human-d…

How has the #Covid_19 crisis affected the urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - III : Farzana Afridi (ISI, Delhi Centre), Sanchari Roy @sancharirm Amrita Dhillon (@KingsCollegeLon) ideasforindia.in/topics/poverty…

India’s ‘missing girls’: Women’s education and declining child sex-ratios - Pradeep Chhibber @UCBerkeley Francesca R Jensenius @nupinytt Susan L Ostermann @NotreDame #GenerationEquality #ActForEqual ideasforindia.in/topics/social-…