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Goods and services tax: Estimating optimal rates

Introduced in India in 2017, a key feature of the goods and services tax (GST) system is that the tax rate for a particular commodity is uniform across the country. Based on a counterfactual framework...

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India’s trade protectionism and low-productivity vicious cycle

Amid rising populism and anti-globalisation movements across the world, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents India’s adoption of trade protectionism. While the country’s inward-oriented economic policies ten...

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वंश मानदंड और महिलाओं की राजनीति में सहभागिता

स्थानीय राजनीति में महिलाओं के प्रतिनिधित्व हेतु आरक्षण ने हालांकि एक मार्ग प्रशस्त किया है, लेकिन इसने उन बुनियादी समस्याओं का समाधान नहीं किया जो महिलाओं को राजनीति में पूर्ण रूप से शामिल होने से रो...

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Grandads, dads, and sons: Examining multigenerational mobility in India

While studies have examined the association in socioeconomic status between parent and offspring, there has been relatively little research on multigenerational mobility, especially in the developing ...

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कोविड-19 संकट और खाद्य सुरक्षा

2020 में कोविड -19 के प्रसार को रोकने के लिए भारत में लगाए गए राष्ट्रीय लॉकडाउन ने लाखों लोगों को बेरोजगार कर दिया और जो लोग रोज़गार में बने रहे उनकी कमाई में तेजी से कमी आई। बहु-राज्य सर्वेक्षणों के आ...

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How has the Covid-19 crisis affected the urban poor? Findings from a phone survey - III

While the devastating impact of the second Covid-19 on public health in India is well-known, there is relatively little evidence on its economic and psychological dimensions. Based on surveys in indus...

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Evolution of dowry in rural India: Evidence from 1960-2008

Despite being illegal since 1961, dowry continues to be a widespread phenomenon in rural India. In the first of a two-part series, this article tracks the evolution of dowry during 1960-2008 across st...

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How dowry influences household decisions in rural India

It is widely believed that Indian parents start saving for dowry as soon as a daughter is born. In the second of a two-part series on dowry in rural India, this article examines how dowry influences h...

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India’s ‘missing girls’: Women’s education and declining child sex-ratios

Although women’s education has been proposed as a solution to the persistent issue of ‘missing girls’ in India, studies have reached contradictory conclusions on the impact of female education on chil...

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कोविड-19 से लड़ने के लिए वैश्विक आपूर्ति श्रृंखलाओं का लाभ उठाना

जब भारत में कोविड-19 की दूसरी लहर आई, तो ऑक्सीजन, चिकित्सा उपकरणों और जीवन रक्षक दवाओं की कमी के कारण स्वास्थ्य संकट और बढ़ गया। इस लेख में, सी वीरामणि और अन्वेषा बसु तर्क देते हैं कि भारत सरकार के आत...

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Covid-19: Does obesity play a role?

Overnutrition is a major public health issue in India. Being overweight or obese has been linked to the development of health conditions that make individuals more susceptible to severe illness due to...

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A decade of credit collapse in India

The government and the Central Bank have undertaken various measures to protect the banking and finance sector from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis. However, despite historically low interes...

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