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What do children in rural India do in their early years?

This year’s Annual Status of Education Report throws light on what children in India do in their early years. In this article, Bhattacharjea and Ramanujan argue that the assumption that there is a uni...

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Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials in India: District-level estimates from Census 2011

The 2011 Indian Census data show a higher growth rate of Muslim population compared to the Hindu population. This article provides an in-depth picture of Hindu-Muslim fertility differentials at the di...

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क्या हिंसा के भय से भारत में महिला श्रम सप्लाई प्रभावित होती है?

विकासशील देशों के श्रम बाजारों में काम करने की उम्र वाली महिलाएं महिलाओं के विरुद्ध हिंसा की अचानक हुई घटनाओं पर होने वाली मीडिया खबरों के प्रति खास तौर से संवेदनशील हो सकती हैं। यह उन्हें काम करने के...

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Seasonal migration and health in India: Constraints for research and practice

Seasonal migrants in India engage in temporary informal work in work environments that actively flout labour laws on wages, work hours, and living conditions. The most significant impact of this is on...

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Strengthen MNREGS to support the rural economy

India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS) has generated a lot of controversy about its effectiveness as a safety net designed to benefit landless rural households. Mur...

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मनरेगा से निकली हैं कई राहें

भारत की महात्मा गांधी राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण रोजगार गारंटी योजना (मनरेगा) की भूमिहीन ग्रामीण परिवारों को लाभ पहुंचाने के लिए बनाए गए सुरक्षा तंत्र के रूप में प्रभावशीलता को लेकर बहुत सारे विवाद उत्पन्न हुए...

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Gone with the wind: Crop-burning and the human costs of pollution

Globally, an estimated 4 million people die prematurely because of air pollution every year. This article exploits seasonal changes in air quality arising due to agricultural fires – used by farmers t...

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Rethinking cadre allocation procedures in civil services

The allocation procedure of All-India Services’ officers to states is an important aspect of personnel administration in the public sector. This article shows that a change in allocation policy in 200...

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Ancestral ecological endowments and contemporary sex ratios

About six million women are ‘missing’ each year from the world, of which 2 million are from India alone. This article finds that there are proportionately more missing women in regions with poorer anc...

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शक्ति के पहिए : बिहार साइकल कार्यक्रम के दीर्घकालिक प्रभाव

बिहार सरकार ने 2006 में स्कूल जाने के लिए साइकल खरीदने के लिए कक्षा 9 की लड़कियों को नकद रुपए देने का एक कार्यक्रम शुरू किया था। वर्ष 2016 में किए गए एक सर्वे के आधार पर इस आलेख में दर्शाया गया है कि ...

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School education in India: Equity in learning?

In recent years, the focus has shifted from enrolment to learning in school education in India. The debate has been centred on learning levels of children and whether they moved up or down, but what a...

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Choosing among children: Early childhood investments in India

Early childhood development programmes have become increasingly common in developing countries. This article analyses historical administrative data from the roll-out of India’s Integrated Child Devel...

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