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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      Clientelistic politics and pro-poor targeting
      – Rules versus discretionary budgets
      Dilip Mookherjee, Anusha Nath - World Development , 2023
      Part of Journal Special Issue Clientelist Politics and Development
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      Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India
      Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan, Kunal Sen - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting...
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      Clientelism and targeting of welfare benefits: Can a centralized formula-based system do better?
      Dilip Mookherjee, Anusha Nath - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Local governments in India—known as panchayats—are sometimes criticised for failing to deliver benefits earmarked for vulnerable regions or households to the intended recipients. Mis-targeting of benefits is often attributed to political clientelism, where funds are diverted opportunistically to...
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      The gendered crisis
      – Livelihoods and wellbeing in India during COVID-19
      Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Sanchari Roy - Feminist Economics
      THIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This article studies the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. First, the study finds that men’s employment declined by 84 percentage points during the pandemic...
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      India’s economic development since independence
      – An interpretative survey
      Kunal Sen - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      When India became a republic in 1950, the economy was primarily agrarian, with three-fifths of output originating from agriculture. In the sixty years since independence, there has been a significant transformation of economic activity away from agriculture, with less than one-fifth of output now...
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      India’s development cooperation in Africa
      – The case of ‘Solar Mamas’ who bring light
      Veda Vaidyanathan - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper examines multiple facets of New Delhi’s development cooperation with countries in Africa and argues that grassroots organizations in India that find innovative, low-cost technological solutions to developmental challenges can help governments and multilateral agencies craft inclusive...
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      Differential health reporting error among older adults in India
      Anna Choi, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, T.V. Sekher - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper studies the education gradient associated with health reporting errors for two highly prevalent non-communicable diseases among older adults in India. We leverage a novel data set—the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (2017–18) panel survey—to unpack the sources of health reporting error...
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      Social mobility among disadvantaged groups in India
      Kunal Sen, Anustup Kundu - GlobalDev.org , 2023 - London, UK
      In recent decades, India has experienced rapid economic growth alongside radical affirmative action programs enacted since independence. This column explores what we know about the impact on social mobility. While there is some evidence of educational mobility, occupational mobility has not...
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      India: employment and inequality trends
      Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan - Oxford University Press , 2023 - Oxford
      From the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
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      Moving up or down the job ladder in India
      – Examining informality-formality transitions
      Rajesh Raj Natarajan, Simone Schotte, Kunal Sen - Oxford University Press , 2023
      From the book: The Job Ladder
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      The impact of affirmative action in India and the United States
      – A systematic literature review
      Simone Schotte, Tharcisio Leone, Rachel M. Gisselquist - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper provides a systematic review of quantitative literature investigating the success of affirmative action policies in addressing socio-economic inequalities between ethnic groups in education and employment. We focus on two of the most influential national experiences: caste-based...
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      When the Lewisian dream sours
      – Industrial aspirations and reverse labour migration
      Alessandra Mezzadri, Kaustav Banerjee - Journal of South Asian Development , 2022
      The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated processes of labour transition from industrial work to the informal economy, which have always characterized the life of the working poor. This study explores this kind of reverse transition, that is, when the Lewisian dream of having an industrial job comes to an...
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      Impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement
      – Evidence from India
      Vinitha Varghese - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      I study the impact of school consolidation on enrolment and achievement, using its staggered roll-out in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Across the years 2014, 2016, and 2017, Rajasthan merged many of its grade 1–5 schools with grade 6–10 schools to create grade 1–10 ‘model’ schools. Twenty-three per...
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      In memory of Ela Ramesh Bhatt — The gentle revolutionary
      Marty Chen - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Ela Ramesh Bhatt, the founder of the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) of India, passed away on 2 November 2022. Known as the ‘gentle revolutionary’, Ela-ben (as she is affectionately known) is recognized around the world for her Gandhian values, visionary ideals, pioneering work, and quiet...
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      Marriage market responses in the wake of a natural disaster in India
      Shreyasee Das, Shatanjaya Dasgupta - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper examines the impact of the 2001 Gujarat earthquake on age at marriage and other assortative matching outcomes. Using the 2004–05 wave of the India Human Development Survey and employing a difference-in-differences strategy, we document that the earthquake reduced the age at marriage for...
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      Other Backward Classes and the politics of reservations in India
      – Past and present
      Zoya Hasan - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      The paper examines the existing state of reservations, more specifically, reservation policies and reservations for government jobs for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India. It discusses the progression and ramifications of these policies and how they have affected the democratization of...
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