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Policy Roundups
Policy Roundup: Water woes, safer childbirth, biodiversity
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – discussing I4I content pertaining to water consumption in urban, affluent households; childbirth practices in public versus private health facilities and newborn mortality; and the preservation of biodiversity in agriculture.
Policy Roundup: Local politicians, transgender law, cooling buildings
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – discussing I4I content pertaining to whether being local matters in electoral politics; amendment to India’s Transgender Act and discrimination against the community; and coping with the intense heat with “cool roof” coating on government buildings such as pre-schools.
Policy Roundup: Pricey fertiliser, shrimp market, political quotas for women
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – discussing I4I content pertaining to the benefits of balancing fertiliser use in agriculture, in the face of reduced supply; the domestic market for Indian shrimp, given global trade uncertainties; and the role of gender in political leadership, in the context of potential fast-tracking of Women’s Reservation Act.
Policy Roundup: Job retention, heat stress, women’s work and mobility
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape. Focusing on four ideas from the latest Economic Survey, we discuss I4I content pertaining to the translation of skills training into durable labour-market value; alleviating the economic effects of heat stress for informal workers; and raising female labour force participation via provision of flexible work opportunities and enhancing women’s mobility in cities.
Policy Roundup: Labour laws, GDP data, MNREGA
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to labour laws and the recent reforms therein; the methodology changes being planned by the Ministry of Statistics for the upcoming release of the GDP series; and the replacement of MNREGA with a new rural employment programme.
Policy Roundup: Bad air, Econ Nobel, FDI in banks
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the effectiveness of the ban on crop residue burning in certain North Indian states; the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics and the matter of incentivising private investment in R&D; and the role of foreign investment in the Indian banking sector and its implications.
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