Police Reform in India: Governing Discretion in Gender-Based Violence Cases
Sofia Amaral, World Bank; Kim Chaney, University at Buffalo; Victoria Née Endl-Geyer, Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy ...
17 Oct 2026
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India’s Antenatal Care Gap: Why Quality Matters for Low Birth Weight
Santosh Kumar Gautam , Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Aadya Bhushan, Watchung Hills Regional High School, New Jersey
09 Sept 2026
"India needs to move beyond counting antenatal visits to ensuring that each contact delivers quality care and addresses risks that contribute to low birth weight."
"Existing programmes provide the platform. The task is to realign how they measure success, deliver services, and assign accountability."
How Piped Water is Changing the Time Use Patterns of Rural Women
Vikhil Sonna, IIT Madras; K. S. Kavi Kumar, Madras School of Economics
15 Oct 2026
India's Digital State Has a Microenterprise Productivity Dividend
Somnath Sharma, Reserve Bank of India (RBI); Kenichi Ueda, Center for Advanced Research in Finance (CARF)
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Delhi’s Air Pollution Needs a Stronger Measurement Framework
Dinesh Kumar Aswal, National Disaster Management Authority
13 Oct 2026
India’s Urban Water Challenge Is Essentially a Problem of Infrastructure Scale
Pradip P. Kalbar, IIT Bombay; Shweta Lokhande, Independent Researcher and Consultant
09 Oct 2026
The Cost of Distance: Why Indian Factories Stay Small
Alessandra Peter, New York University; Cian Ruane, Central Bank of Ireland
07 Oct 2026
India Needs Local Climate Budgets: What the 16th Finance Commission Can Enable
Suranjan Majumder, Independent Researcher; Uday Chatterjee, Bhatter College, Dantan; Krishna Malakar, IIT Madras
05 Oct 2026
IndiaAI and the Next Technology Frontier: Building Capability Before It Settles
Abhay Ratnaparkhi, eBay
03 Oct 2026
Why India’s MSMEs Are Surviving Without Scaling
Surender Kumar, Delhi School of Economics (DSE); Naunidh Dixit, Delhi School of Economics (DSE)
01 Oct 2026
How Digitalisation Makes India's SMEs More Visible to Lenders
Ritika Jain, Centre for Development Studies; Shreya Biswas, BITS Pilani-Hyderabad campus
30 Sept 2026
India’s Sanitation Mission Must Move Beyond Toilets
Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, UK; Ruth Kennedy-Walker, World Bank; Apeksha Vohra, Independent Researcher ...
27 Sept 2026
India's GAAR Experience: When Policy Uncertainty Drives Capital Outflows
Chandra Thapa, University of Strathclyde, UK; Biwesh Neupane, University of Strathclyde, UK; Chaman Shrestha, University of the West of Scotland, UK ...
25 Sept 2026
When Global Tyre Standards Meet Local Roads: The Hidden Cost of Regulatory Harmonisation
Ekta Selarka, Madras School of Economics; Subrata Sarkar, IIM Bangalore
23 Sept 2026
The Sediment Burden of Yamuna’s Plastic Pollution
Gunjan Suruse, Savitribai Phule Pune University; Prachi Jadhav, Savitribai Phule Pune University; Dhananjay C. Meshram, Dr. Harisingh Gour Central University ...
21 Sept 2026
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