The War on Poverty during COVID-19: 3 Strategies for Governments to Use
Francois Gerard, Clement Imbert and Kate Orkin recommend that developing nations provide social protection to their most vulnerable...
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Aug 16, 2020
Inclusive Growth Dividend: A Universal Income Transfer That Might Work
As COVID-19 sinks the economy deeper each day, Maitreesh Ghatak and Karthik Muralidharan propose an alternative anti-poverty measure...
Aug 7, 2020
NEP 2020: Challenges, Criticisms, Way Forward
Kanksshi Agarwal tells you all you need to know about the new National Education Policy that everyone has been talking about. From its...
Aug 3, 2020
Why India Should Consider Compulsory Licensing For COVID-19 Related Drugs
As part of our continuing series on healthcare, here is an explainer on Compulsory Licensing, its pros and cons, what other countries are...
Aug 1, 2020
The NEP Language Debate: For & Against
In the aftermath of the new National Education Policy, as the debate over education in Indian languages heats up, IPC collates arguments...
Jul 28, 2020
Why Are India’s Poor Not Demanding Better Healthcare?
Madhvi Gupta and Pushkar look for the answer to this question - of missing collective action by India’s poor - in a chapter of their book...
Jul 23, 2020
Environment Impact Assessment Notification 2020: Pro-Industry, Anti-People?
Here is a page for all you wanted to know about the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) and the central government’s draft notification...
Jul 18, 2020
Messaging Can Help Fight COVID-19: Evidence from an RCT by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
There is new evidence, from West Bengal, that messaging by celebrities can act as a ‘nudge’ to help in prevention and early diagnosis of...
Jul 15, 2020
The Future of Indian Children's Education is at Risk
Here are the disquieting results of a survey across 15 Indian states by Child Rights NGO ‘Save the Children’, that analyses the plight of...
Jul 14, 2020
Indian States Are Going Under. What Does This Mean For Us?
M. Govinda Rao and Arjun Srinivas each examine the precarious financial situation of Indian states and the implications of this. Here are...
Jul 10, 2020
Should India Nationalize Healthcare?
Drawing from an online session Roli Books organised with healthcare experts, we examine the pros and cons of nationalized healthcare....
Jul 9, 2020
The Economy is Broken. Montek Singh Ahluwalia Tells You How to Fix It.
How did we get here? How do we get out of here? Montek Singh Ahluwalia, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, answers this....
Jul 8, 2020
COVID-19 is Destroying the Creative Economy
A report titled 'Taking the Temperature' surveys the impact of COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdown on the creative economy. The results are...
Jul 6, 2020
It's Time to Talk About Healthcare
Indian Policy Collective is announcing a series aimed at collating facts, figures and policy recommendations to inform the public health...
Jul 1, 2020
GST at Three: Hits, Misses, Reform
Today marks three years since the Goods and Services Tax was implemented in India. Sumit Dutt Majumder, former chairman, CBEC (Central...
Jun 28, 2020
What Ails the Police Force?
Police reform is imperative but we first have to understand the key issues involved. A 188 page report created by Common Cause and the...
Jun 24, 2020
Employment After the Lockdown: Gender, Caste & Urban-Rural Gaps
A paper by Ashwini Deshpande investigates the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on employment and finds that women and Dalits, especially...
Jun 19, 2020
Indian Federalism in the Time of Modi’s BJP
A questionable federal design, the BJP’s sweeping majority in parliament, and the party’s recent track record on cooperative federalism....
Jun 16, 2020
Questions for the 15th Finance Commission to Answer
The 15th Finance Commission is expected to submit its five year report. Read on to know how and why this is important, especially for...
Jun 11, 2020
The Adivasi and the State
Scheduled tribes constitute over 30 percent of Chhattisgarh’s population. IPC spoke to officials in the Chhattisgarh state government to...
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