India

Deploying frequent and unpredictable visible police patrols in the streets of Hyderabad, India, led to a 27% drop in severe harassment cases. Such data-driven public safety interventions can improve women’s safety, educational choices and labour forc...

Closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is not just a social equity issue—it is a powerful lever for economic growth. Evidence from India shows that women hire more women, and so efforts to boost female entrepreneurship will increase female labour...

Increased uncertainty in India around US immigration policies led to firms relocating jobs from the US to India. Increasing rhetoric around restrictive immigration policy may increase offshoring, rather than promote domestic employment.

Managers in Indian garment factories use informal worker exchanges to mitigate absenteeism. Expanding these collaborations could unlock significant productivity gains.

Firms displayed considerable agility in reshoring domestic trade across states following the closure of state borders in India during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those more affected by the shock persistently increased sales and input procurement within th...

Welfare programmes, even when designed to prevent misuse, can be subverted by a political party and may encourage the centralisation of corruption.

Evidence from India shows that discussions between peers from the same majority-group that include topics involving transgender people can be effective at reducing anti-transgender discrimination.

Political manipulation in India's electricity sector, involving illicit subsidies to constituents of the ruling party, results in staggering efficiency losses.

Households are willing to pay for public health insurance, but those who pay to enrol have higher average costs than those who enrol when insurance is free. How then should governments set premiums for health insurance given the high costs of raising...