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Aug 26, 2020

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...

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 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 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...

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 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...

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 3, 2020

Fix MGNREGA, Save Rural Poor

To provide relief to the migrant and rural poor as well as the economy the government needs to fix MGNREGA urgently. From de-digitization...

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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