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A Framework for Climate Change Mitigation in India Original
A Framework for Climate Change Mitigation in India Author/Editor: Jean Chateau ; Geetika Dang ; Margaux MacDonald ; John A Spray ; Sneha D Thube Publication Date: October 20, 2023 Electronic Access: Free Download. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file Disclaimer: IMF Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to encourage debate.
Vaccine complacency: A reality
Two months ago, India crossed the landmark figure of 100 crore administered vaccines—for the first and second dose combined. By December, 10, ~81 crore of its adult population received its first dose, with ~51 crore also having received a second dose so as to be admitted in the once elusive, fully vaccinated against COVID-19 club.
Fix gaps in anti-human trafficking landscape
The AHT ecosystem needs to move beyond treating survivors as victims and rather empower and create survivor leadership models wherein they can grow and influence the ecosystem Estimates by social impact organisations suggest that at any given time there are more than 25 million trafficked people in the country. Human trafficking can take many forms, be it forced labour, bonded labour, sexual slavery, organ harvesting, or the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children.
Sambandh Blog | Fuzzy frames: Mobile borders versus rigid boundaries in India’s neighbourhood
In the first of our blog series on issues related to India’s neighbourhood connectivity, Nidhi Varma interviews Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, Visiting Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi. Q: In your article, you examine the differences between how fragile borders are perceived by states and residents, with a focus on the India-Bangladesh border. You say, ‘the borders of the state are reproduced through the structure of the market itself’.
Is India still the neighbourhood’s education hub?
Introduction India has long been an education hub for students from its neighbourhood.[2] Besides economic benefits, India’s capacity to attract students from neighbouring countries has helped it to form closer political ties and spread its cultural influence and values to the surrounding region. India’s ability to provide quality higher education is a form of soft power that, subtly but surely, enhances India’s connectivity with its neighbours.
Is India still the neighbourhood’s education hub?
By Aakshi Chaba, Geetika Dang & Constantino Xavier Brookings India became the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) on September 10, 2020. This work was done before the transition. Introduction India has long been an education hub for students from its neighbourhood.[2] Besides economic benefits, India’s capacity to attract students from neighbouring countries has helped it to form closer political ties and spread its cultural influence and values to the surrounding region.
Women’s Reservation Bill: What can India learn from other countries?
Globally, women remain vastly underrepresented in local and national politics. As of 2018, according to the Inter Parliamentary Union, only 24%[i] of parliamentarians are women. Can public policy, in general, and affirmative action, in particular, result in political inclusion of women?
Women’s Political Participation and Development
On July 29th, 2019, Brookings India hosted Sonia Bhalotra for a Development Seminar on Women’s Political Participation and Development. She presented two co-authored papers, “Women Legislators and Economic Performance” (2018) and “Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Participation” (2018).
Assessing gender in the North East
On July 19, 2019, Brookings India hosted a Development Seminar on gender in the North East, under its Gender Secretariat initiative, which is a platform for developing and discussing research that fuels impact on policy related to gender in India. Patricia Mukhim, veteran journalist and editor of Shillong Times, and a Padma Shri awardee, presented key insights from her book, Waiting for an Equal World: Gender in the North East, and discussed lesser known aspects of matriliny in Meghalaya.
Why women candidates are more likely to run as independents
Editor's Note: The following blog post is based on “Women in Party Politics,” a 2014 working paper by Shamika Ravi & Rohan Sandhu. In a democratic polity, political representation is an inherent aspect of political participation. In this view, whether or not women are able to exercise political participation depends, to a large extent, on the terms of their inclusion and the extent to which the rules of the game enable or allow for their representation.
Women leaders in Indian political Parties
Some of the most interesting trends in global development––the emergence of world markets, the lag in Africa’s local civil works capacity, and the increasing presence of China and India in this space––are buried in a World Bank dataset called the Summary and Detailed Borrower Procurement Reports. These World Bank reports tell us which firms are winning contracts, which countries they are from, and how these trends have changed over time (from 1995 to 2013).
What India’s 65 million ‘missing women’ mean for the state of its democracy
As the largest democracy in the world, India has boasted a consistent record of free and fair elections. A democratic government derives its legitimacy and power to implement policy from the “consent of the governed”. But if a significant chunk of the population is “missing”, does it reflect the true consent of the people? Using Ravi and Kapoor’s 2013 paper[1] as motivation, this blog presents the concept of ‘missing women’ in Indian democracy.
Teenage girls in India: Aspirations and reality
There are 80 million teenage girls in India. A clear understanding of their current realities and their aspirations is essential in order to design effective policies for them. However, a key impediment for data-driven policy design, in order to address the needs of teenage girls in India, is the absence of any representative survey. In order to address this gap, Naandi Foundation carried out the TAG (Teen Age Girls) Survey under the aegis of Project Nanhi Kali.
Savagery of Rapes of Minors
Geetika Dang is an independent researcher; Vani S. Kulkarni is lecturer in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA; and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) professorial research fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England, and Visiting Scholar, Population Studies Centre, University of Pnnsylvania, USA). NEW DELHI, Jun 22 2018 (IPS) - Rapes of minors surged from 16 per day in 2001 to 46 per day in 2016. As if this was not horrendous enough, their savagery adds to it.
Food Security and Growth in Asia
NEW DELHI, May 28 2018 (IPS) - A disquieting finding of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2017, Building resilience for peace and food security, or (SFSN2017), Rome,is that, in 2016, the number of chronicallyundernourished people in the world increased to 815 million, up from777 million in 2015 although still lower than about 900 million in 2000.Similarly,while the prevalence of undernourishment rose to 11 percent in 2016, this is still well below thelevel attaineda decade...
Kidnapped, Abducted and Abandoned…
Geetika Dang is an independent researcher; Vani S. Kulkarni is lecturer in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA; and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) professorial research fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England. NEW DELHI, Apr 24 2018 (IPS) - Kidnappings and abductions have soared since 2001. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that their share in total crimes against women nearly doubled from 10% in 2001 to 19% in 2016.
Dowry Death or Murder?
Geetika Dang is Independent Researcher, India; Vani S. Kulkarni is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Raghav Gaiha is (Hon) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England. NEW DELHI, Mar 19 2018 (IPS) - Dowry deaths rose from about 19 per day in 2001 to 21 per day in 2016. It is indeed alarming that the rise in dowry deaths is unabated despite greater stringency of anti-dowry laws.
Violence: Unending Woes of Indian Women
Geetika Dang is a free-lance Economist; Vani S. Kulkarni is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA; & Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, England. All authors share equal responsibility. NEW DELHI, Nov 23 2017 (IPS) - The statistics are chilling. As many as 2.24 million crimes against women were reported over the past decade: 26 crimes against women are reported every hour, or one complaint every two minutes.
Coordinates of Safety
Crimes against women rose during 2001-15 despite greater affluence and an improved sex ratio Nov 17 2016 (The Hindu) - If we go by the National Crime Records Bureau reports, incidence of serious crimes against women rose from 237 per day in 2001 to 313 per day in 2015. These crimes include rape, kidnapping and abduction, dowry deaths and cruelty by husbands and relatives. Minor girls, adolescent and old women are frequently victims of brutal rapes and murders.
Crimes against women | Coordinates of safety
Crimes against women rose during 2001-15 despite greater affluence and an improved sex ratio If we go by the National Crime Records Bureau reports, incidence of serious crimes against women rose from 237 per day in 2001 to 313 per day in 2015. These crimes include rape, kidnapping and abduction, dowry deaths and cruelty by husbands and relatives. Minor girls, adolescent and old women are frequently victims of brutal rapes and murders.
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