Inclusion Economics India Centre

3rd Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture begins at @iitdelhi. Prof. Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC @inclusionindia) speaks on the challenges & opportunities of voluntary carbon markets in developing economies @The_IGC. Stay tuned for updates! 🧵

@LSEEcon @AshokaUniv @FGVRI @Stanford @YaleEGC @I4I_Hindi Rohini Pande will also be speaking at the third annual @Ideas4India Ashok Kotwal Memorial Lecture ⏬ 🗓️ Wednesday, 11 December 2024. Stay tuned for more information.

MoSPI – contributing to data and evidence for tracking gender gaps in the labour markets - Dr Saurabh Garg, Secretary, MoSPI, speaking at the Policy Roundtable -Jobs and Gendered Gaps in India - organised by Yale-EGC, Inclusion Economics and IEG (1/2)

With global attention on conservation and reforestation, how can women not just be involved in, but also lead, efforts to manage forests in India? Panelists Prof. Rohini Pande, Prof. Bina Agarwal, and Shri Naresh Saxena discussed at today’s workshop with @IEGResearch @YaleEGC

Prof. Chetan Ghate (@IEGResearch) and Prof. Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC) open today’s Gender and Growth Gaps in India Research and Policy Dialogue at India International Centre in New Delhi, setting the stage for important research and policy discussions throughout the day.

Check out our lineup of speakers for the "Improving Last Mile Access to Quality Agent Services in India" webinar! Don't miss the chance to interact with these industry experts. Register now at bit.ly/3W6r8RP #agentnetworks #agentbanking @InclusionIndia

A new #ScienceExpertVoices article by Rohini Pande looks at fixing forest carbon credits. Read more: scim.ag/5xo

Watch out for video and text summaries from the plenaries and research presentations! We hope that this workshop stimulates more conversations, research and policy action to reduce gender gaps to enable robust economic growth in South Asia!

Participants and researchers ended the day by taking part in three breakout sessions- gender & climate change; measurement issues and policy tools for reducing gender gaps.

Moderator Urmi B was joined by our panelists, @kajal_fnu, @readingkafka & Hema Swaminathan (@iimb_official) to further deconstruct supply side issues, particularly around policy and measurement challenges that drive women's decisions around labour force participation #G3inSA2023

To enable a more robust understanding of labour supply side issues in India, researchers @rosaabraham6 (@azimpremjiuniv) and Simone Schaner (@USC) shared insights from their work on labour supply and time-use measurement. #G3inSA2023

Rohini Pande (@YaleEGC) and @SEWABharat's @RJhabvala discussed with journalist Kavitha Iyer about the challenges faced by Indian women in starting and scaling enterprises and in entering the workforce #G3inSA2023

Are text messaging campaigns enough to meaningfully address information gaps between the candidates and the public in India? Yusuf Neggers @fordschool on his visit to EGC @YaleMacMillan spotlight: egc.yale.edu/research/spotl… @InclusionIndia @JPAL_SA @TCDUChicago @EPoDHarvard @ncaer

Many thanks to co-organizers @official_udaiti, @InclusionIndia, @ADBInstitute, & @Yale Inclusion Economics, with support from @gatesfoundation, for making Gender and Growth Gaps in South Asia such a successful event; we look forward to seeing how this shapes research and policy!

In most countries, a gap in women's labour force participation is observed when women have children. This is often called the motherhood penalty. This is not seen in India, where the gap is in entering the workforce, says Keynote speaker Rohini Pande (@Yale @YaleEGC) #G3inSA2023

In a policy & practice plenary with @gchiplunkar, @_ADeshpande, Pooja Nanda (@MahindraRise) and Neha Wadhawan (@ilo) panelists discussed how to ensure employment support to female migrants. Intersectional factors such as caste prevents certain women from taking up particular jobs

Ms. Mahua Roy Choudhury represents @brlps_jeevika at the Gender & Growth Gap workshop, hosted by @InclusionIndia, @YaleEGC, @BMGFIndia and esteemed partners, to deliberate current policy needs on the drivers and consequences of gender gaps in the economy in South Asia.

@official_udaiti @YaleEGC @Yale @InclusionIndia @ADBInstitute @gatesfoundation @TCFtweet @dev_a_key Thank you for this insightful and important meeting, what a fantastic grouping of feminist scholars, and for the panel (all male!) on climate and gender, and opportunity to share recent work on inclusive energy transitions @Ishita1802 @IDRCinAsia @mairidupar

Speakers include: • Rohini Pande (EGC/@YaleEconomics) • @_ADeshpande (@AshokaUniv) • @RJhabvala (@SEWABharat) • @PriyankKharge (Govt of Karnataka) • R Prasana (Govt of Chhattisgarh) • Dr. Kajal, IAS (Govt of India) • @gchiplunkar (@UVA) • Rosa Abraham (@azimpremjiuniv)