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Provide Equity, Not Debt
The government should offer to make direct investments in businesses by taking a ‘minority stake’, which will be recovered through…
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What Would Make India’s Growth Sustainable?
Rural-led growth relying on domestic demand is not likely to generate such high rates of growth. However, slower growth that…
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Fighting the coronavirus: How to get vaccines speedily to people who need them, once one has been found
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz suggested a partial alternative to the patent system that would both incentivise research but avoid monopoly…
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Economics in Quarantine
Given the lockdown, what is not negotiable is extensive and generous government spending to compensate for the known costs of…
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Impact of Covid-19 on the World Economy
The latest projections of GDP growth for the Indian economy in FY21 range from –0.5 per cent (Nomura) to 2.5…
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A normalisation of WFH is unlikely to raise women’s participation in the labour force
The experience of the pandemic teaches us that a normalisation of WFH — without concomitant changes that reduce the burden…
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Pandemics and women’s labour market participation in India: A long view
The experience of the pandemic teaches us that a normalisation of ‘working from home’ supposedly allows women to participate in…
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Teaching in the Time of Isolation
But in this virtual non-existent classroom, there was nobody but me. And I was talking to my inanimate, unresponsive, expressionless…
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Protecting women is missing from pandemic management measures in India
The most horrific and obvious impact of the lockdown imposed to flatten the curve has been a rise in domestic…
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What Women Do: Is it even “work” ?
Women who are working, for them it’s not just about doing well at their jobs. But it’s about doing well…
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In locked down India, women fight coronavirus and domestic violence
The chart shows that there is already a sharp jump in complaints related to domestic violence and the “right to…
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Developing Nations and COVID 19
Looking at the pandemic and its responses through the gender lens is needed, if not for anything else then just…
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France Eases Lockdown
What the pandemic is revealing is just how important migrants are to production and service provision in the Indian economy.…
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League of nations: guessing our way out of lockdown
In the fight against COVID-19, many other essential diseases and outbreaks are getting ignored. Now we’re getting reports about Dengue,…
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Living with lockdowns: Early lessons from India’s COVID-19 response
Women do between six to nine times more hours of domestic work than men…Ignoring gender will slow down the fight…
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Life after Lockdown: Gender equality
Overall, the representation of women in decision-making bodies is not that high at all…What that does is that it makes…
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What Does Work-From-Home Mean for Women?
It has been estimated that in 2019, the imputed value of this unpaid reproductive work by women was equivalent of…
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Gender Matters: COVID-19 and the labour market in the Global South
When women have less decision-making power than men, either in households or government, their needs are less likely to be…
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Implications of the Covid-19 Crisis for Labour and Employment in India: Impact, Strategies and Perspectives
On average, in India, employment in April 2020 was about 67% of employment in the previous year…Women relative to their…
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Is work from home feasible in the long run?
I do hope that increased possibilities of employment for women will go hand in hand with changes in the gender…
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Gender Disparity in India’s Lockdown-Induced Job Losses
On one hand, you see a dop in their [women’s] employment. On the other hand, you see that when you…
