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‘Show me the Evidence’: Mobilisation, Citizenship and Risk in Indian Asbestos Issues
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009This paper examines asbestos issues, mobilisation and citizenship in India. It shows how asbestos has been considered as a tool for Indian economic growth and modernisation and explores the scientific debates around its ‘safe’ use.DocumentHome to market: responses, resurgence and transformation of Ayurveda from 1830s to 1920
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008The article explores the early transformation of Ayurveda into:DocumentCosts of basic services in Kerala, 2007: education, health, childbirth and finance (loans)
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2008This Working Paper focuses on the pattern and costs of services in four areas, which critically affect most households in Kerala. The major concerns of this Working Paper include answers to questions such as:DocumentAssessing the Effectiveness of Agri-Food Value Chain Interventions Aimed at Enhancing Consumption of Nutritious Food by the Poor: Conceptual Framework
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015South Asia has experienced rapid economic growth, yet it still has the highest rate of child malnutrition in the world, and half the population is undernourished. Besides children, undernutrition among women and adolescent girls is also a major concern. The lack of progress in solving undernutrition, in all its guises, reflects in part the complexity of factors involved.DocumentSwapping the stick for a broom: Men supporting women in local politics in India, EMERGE Case Study 4
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015Women’s engagement, leadership and decision making in the public sphere continues to be suppressed in much of rural India. It is controlled by cultural norms which place women as subordinate to men, and prescribe their roles as confined to the domestic sphere. .DocumentSwapping the stick for a broom: Men supporting women in local politics in India, EMERGE Case Study 4
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015Women’s engagement, leadership and decision making in the public sphere continues to be suppressed in much of rural India. It is controlled by cultural norms which place women as subordinate to men, and prescribe their roles as confined to the domestic sphere. .DocumentIndia Health Report: Nutrition 2015
Public Health Foundation of India, 2015This report surveys the trends in maternal and child undernutrition in India. It looks at trends and disparities in these outcomes across geographical regions, socio-economic classes, and demographic groups.DocumentEMERGE Practice Brief: Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2015DocumentCan e-governance reduce capture of public programmes? Experimental evidence from India’s employment guarantee scheme in Bihar
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015Low administrative capacity and pervasive corruption constrain the performance of social insurance programs in many low-income settings. The increasing availability of e-governance, i.e., the application of information and communication technology for delivering public services,DocumentCZMAs and coastal environments: two decades of regulating land use change on India’s coastline
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, 2015This report is the first systematic effort to study the structure and functioning of Coastal Zone Management Authorities (CZMAs) and analyse their performance on the tasks of project appraisal, coastal zone mapping, actions against violations and conservation.Pages