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 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...
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 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 3, 2020
The Future Of Higher Education: A White Paper
COVID-19 changes substantially how the higher education sector must operate. This brings with it new challenges that must be urgently...
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 26, 2020
Population Control & Policymaking: A Lesson from the Emergency
An excerpt from Gyan Prakash’s Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point outlines the questionable lineage of...
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...
Jun 9, 2020
IPC Explainer: Tech Vs. Privacy During COVID-19
What are the key contours of the tech vs privacy debate when it comes to fighting the coronavirus? What have other countries around the...
Jun 1, 2020
How Healthy is the Aarogya Setu?
On the issue of the Aarogya Setu App, IPC has collated a list of demands that the government needs to meet now. The central government's...
May 28, 2020
IPC’s Big Think: Abhijit Sen (Part 2)
This is part two of the first of IPC’s series of ‘big think’ interviews, with Abhijit Sen. The idea behind the series is that experts...
May 27, 2020
The Law Behind the Lathi
The images of police brutality you have witnessed during this lockdown point to a systemic failure. We tell you how. We tell you what...
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