France24 cites a Mint article by Rajiv Lall, Chairman, IDFC Institute and Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute, on Modicare. Excerpts:
Experts have praised the latest programme but say it should have included primary day-to-day healthcare instead of just...
Rohini Nilekani, Founder-Chairperson of Arghyam, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss problems with access to sufficient and quality water in India, and innovative approaches that have been successful in addressing this issue.
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This World Economic Forum piece highlights the status of women's land rights across the developing world, and the benefits of women owning land. Excerpts below:
"Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing e...
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss methodological issues with current measures of Development and Ease of Doing Bu...
This article by Pramit Bhattacharya in Mint says:
"...the average proportion of underweight women in India is higher than the average proportion of underweight women in sub-Saharan Africa. And... a greater proportion of young women become pregnant in India compared to sub-Saharan Afri...
