Access to affordable daycare and women’s economic opportunities: evidence from a cluster-randomised intervention in India
August 2020 - Arijit Nandi, Parul Agarwal, Anoushaka Chandrashekar, Sam Harper
Lead Centre: IFMRLEAD
Focus Area: Financial Inclusion
With declining female labour force participation in India, this impact evaluation explores the influence of day care facilities on a range of social and economic outcomes on women and contributes to evidence in support of child care programmes for women empowerment. This study was conducted in collaboration with Seva Mandir and McGill University with support from International Development Research Cebtre (IDRC).
Nurse and Physician Reflections on the Application of a Quality Standards Training Program to Reduce Maternal Mortality
August 2018 - Shannon Maloney, Mohammad Siahpush, Danae Dinkel, Paraskevi A Farazi, Jithin Jose, Rohini Dutta
Lead Centre: IFMRLEAD
Focus Area: Public Health
Low and middle income countries are characterised by high rates of maternal mortality, in spite of a rise in facility-supported births. This warrants a need to assess the quality of maternal care. The current study evaluated provider perspectives on teaching material in an evidence-based medical education session, directed at addressing common causes of maternal mortality in government hospitals in India.
Maximizing non-tax revenues – Property assets as revenue sources of ULBs
January 2011 - Sujatha Srinivasan
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Infrastructure and Governance
Municipal property assets are a relatively under-researched and under-utilized source of income among the various income sources of local governments in India. The non-tax revenue arising from these property assets, though significant, barely begins to reflect the considerable financial worth of this asset base held by local and state governments. This paper underscores the untapped revenue potential of these assets among the various income sources of state and local governments in India. It also highlights a few benchmark land management practices across the world to understand their relevance and applicability within the Indian context. Building on this data and related literature review, the paper presents a fundamental framework for maximizing revenue generation through property asset sources.
Impact Evaluation and Public Sector Programs in India: What can we do Right Now?
April 2010 - Elizabeth Mathew, Joanne Sprague
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Infrastructure and Governance
This paper explores the existing gaps in the way CSS’ are evaluated for their impact in the Indian public sector. The authors identify an ‘ideal type’ model for a public sector impact evaluation mechanism that would be both effective and feasible to implement. The authors conclude with a brief forecast of why such steps might be resisted, and provide recommendations of how to overcome resistance to enable near-term improvements to the current evaluation culture.
The Social Impacts of Climate Change in South Asia JMRI Vol 5, No. 3 (2009)
August 2009 - Sujatha Byravan, Sudhir Chella Rajan
Lead Centre: Centre for Development Finance
Focus Area: Environment and Climate Change
This paper focuses on an especially important set of social impacts resulting from climate change in South Asia, namely the displacement of vast numbers of people as a consequence mainly of sea level rise along the coasts and secondarily from drought in rural areas. We examine these impacts through the use of scenarios involving alternative assumptions about whether or not effective policies will be developed in time, given what we know now about the physical changes that are likely to take place
