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Getting Swachh Bharat statistics right: Moving sanitation outcomes from access to use will repres...

Getting Swachh Bharat statistics right: Moving sanitation outcomes from access to use will repres...

Declaration of India as an open-defecation free nation was based solely on access to toilets. The outcome mea…

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Beyond open defecation: Tackling solid waste management issues

Beyond open defecation: Tackling solid waste management issues

With SWM industry expected to double in five years and become worth Rs 9,800 crore, stock market seems to hav…

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Exploring the Association Between Women Empowerment and Sanitation in India - The Wire Science

Exploring the Association Between Women Empowerment and Sanitation in India - The Wire Science

Open defecation (OD) disproportionately affects women's safety and dignity in India. Inequitable gender norms…

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Swachh Bharat: Get sanitation mission right

Swachh Bharat: Get sanitation mission right

To make Swachh Bharat Mission II a meaningful effort, govt must budget for a survey on sanitation behaviour b…

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Series of Op-Eds Tackle Sanitation in India

Series of Op-Eds Tackle Sanitation in India

In a series of op-eds, Payal Seth, a consultant with the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition…

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As COVID-19 Raged, the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence Swept Across the Globe

As COVID-19 Raged, the Shadow Pandemic of Domestic Violence Swept Across the Globe

Restrictions on mobility and loss of economic opportunities necessitated by the COVID-19 lockdowns have resul…

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Consumption Mobility in India, 2011–12 to 2023–24

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By Ashish Kumar Verified, Payal Seth
| Economic and Political Weekly Verified
A Threshold-based Analysis of the Bottom Decile Using the newly released Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023–24 micro-data, this paper examines changes in consumption at the bottom of India’s distribution since 2011–12. Updating 2011–12 monthly per capita consumption expenditure decile thresholds to 2023–24 prices using consumer price index-consistent inflators, it tracks real consumption mobility without relying on imputed poverty lines.
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AI-driven job displacement: employee enrolment trends suggest India has already been impacted

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By Payal Seth
| Mint
On 13 June, nearly 200 economists and AI researchers, including a dozen Nobel laureates and the chief economists of OpenAI and Anthropic, signed a blunt statement. Titled ‘We Must Act Now,’ it warns that AI “may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years,” thus transforming the economy more powerfully than the Industrial Revolution, but far faster. The explicit risk: large-scale job displacement. What makes it remarkable is who signed it.
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AI-driven job displacement: employee enrolment trends suggest India has already been impacted

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By Payal Seth
| Flipboard
1 hour ago Donald Trump’s most consequential construction project may not be a ballroom or an arch, but his tariff wall. His latest threat to raise tariffs to 50 percent on some Canadian goods, as drastic as it is, is not nearly as significant as what’s coming next. By the end of this month, the administration …
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