11 September, 2025Night shift bans and female employment in Indian manufacturing
Between 2014 and 2017, seven Indian states amended their regulations to allow women to work night shifts in factories, with the condition that employers provide female-friendly amenities. This article...
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Exit barriers as entry barriers: Explaining India’s odd development path
Despite an abundance of low-skilled labour, India never experienced the kind of take-off in labour-intensive manufacturing seen in other countries at similar income levels. This article argues that a ...
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Shoumitro Chatterjee Kala Krishna Kalyani Padmakumar Yingyan Zhao
- 29 August, 2025
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Planning for ‘jobs of the future’ in a changing world
Following decades of structural transformation, in the coming years, external factors including climate change, increasing automation, and global economic policies will all play a role in determining ...
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Nikita Mujumdar
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Managerial quality and productivity dynamics
It is well known that managerial quality impacts firm productivity and growth. Which managerial skills, traits, and practices contribute most to productivity? Are all such traits easily observable? Ar...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu Mansi Kabra Anant Nyshadham Mamta Pimoli Jorge Tamayo
- 27 November, 2019
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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?
India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it cre...
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Stefano Breschi Francesco Lissoni Ernest Miguelez
- 18 February, 2019
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The changing task content of jobs in India
The ongoing wave of technological revolution across the globe is set to fundamentally change the way goods are produced and services are delivered. Using a task-based framework, this article seeks to ...
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Jay Dev Dubey Pankaj Vashisht
- 13 February, 2019
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Mapping the Urban World: Integrating High-resolution Satellite Imagery and Night Light Data
This project aims to improve current approaches to chart urban extent across the globe by integrating night light (NTL) data with Landsat 30m resolution satellite images. By applying state-of-the-art ...
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Ran Goldblatt Gordon Hanson Amit Khandelwal
- 30 September, 2018
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An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric ...
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Subhashis Banerjee Subodh V. Sharma
- 24 September, 2018
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
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Siddhartha Mitra
- 25 July, 2018
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Management and India’s economic growth
India has produced a well-recognised elite of managers, some of whom have demonstrated their capabilities in premier firms outside the country. In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses existing empirica...
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Nirvikar Singh
- 20 July, 2018
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India’s R&D expenditure: Composition matters
While gross expenditure on R&D in India has been on the rise in recent years, it is dominated by public investment. In this post, Sanjib Pohit contends that the current system of allocating public fun...
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Sanjib Pohit
- 18 April, 2018
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Tripura’s bamboo sector: Potential and challenges
About a third of the total area of Tripura is covered by bamboo, and bamboo has emerged as a key thrust area for the state’s industrial development. Based on a field visit that was undertaken to stu...
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Bornali Bhandari
- 13 April, 2018
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Role of private sector in the holistic skilling of India’s workforce
Low skill levels of workers are a key reason for low labour productivity in developing countries. In this article, Adhvaryu et al. discuss research that centres around two important questions in this...
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Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Lavanya Garg Anant Nyshadham
- 14 March, 2018
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Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...
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Farzana Afridi
- 12 March, 2018
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Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Debraj Ray
In this podcast, Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) speaks with Debraj Ray (Julius Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and ...
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Parikshit Ghosh Debraj Ray
- 13 February, 2018
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
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