Harnessing Technology for Inclusive Prosperity Growth, Work, and Inequality in the Digital Era Transformative new technologies are reshaping economies and societies. But as they create new…

Changes in climatic conditions have increased the variability in rainfall patterns worldwide. A negative rainfall shock faced by children in the initial 1000 days of life and the resulting…

Child malnutrition is remarkably high in India. The problem of food insecurity is also extremely alarming in the country. From a policy perspective, a question of paramount importance in this context…

We empirically examine whether violation of hypergamy—which occurs when the wife's economic status equals or exceeds that of her husband's—causally affects domestic violence using microdata from India…

The Indian leather industry contributes to economic growth at a significant environmental cost. Due to the rising global demand for sustainable leather products, promoting efficient input utilisation…

Policy expectations from biofuels have been a widely contested issue. Lately, the risks and uncertainties associated with the unintended consequences of biofuels in terms of food and land-use changes…

Free trade has led to extreme specialization, e.g., most of the world's supply of APIs for medicine come from China, critical software and microchips come from the US, etc. Therefore, a lockdown in…