Skill development has emerged as a key policy priority for India. In this article, Pratibha Joshi examines existing options for understanding skill components of training courses, their shortcomings, and proposes some alternatives. While there has been a massive push for skilling … Read More
Blogs
Skilling India – Towards a Robust Qualification Framework for Training Programs
Pratibha Joshi | February 27, 2015
Giorgia Barboni on her Research Experience in India
LEAD Research Team | February 10, 2015
Giorgia Barboni is a Principle Investigator on a few IFMR LEAD projects. She was recently in India conducting research work. We took this opportunity to ask her about her research experiences in India and more. According to you, what research … Read More
Promoting Energy Efficiency in India
Sivaramakrishnan Balasubramanian, Gayathri Sivakumar | February 5, 2015
The building sector accounts for a significant share of energy consumption in India. Thus, policies that encourage energy efficiency in building construction have an important role to play in energy conservation. In this article, authors Sivaramakrishnan Balasubramanian and Gayathri Sivakumar … Read More
Demand and Adoption of Innovation – Mobile-based services
LEAD Research Team | February 4, 2015
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity”-Michael Porter Any study that evaluates a service/product innovation having a completely new or  modified design, not only assesses the effect of adoption by the community but also studies the process of adoption. … Read More
Yale Economic Growth Center’s Tamil Nadu Socio-economic Mobility Survey Part 2- Predicting Toilet Take-up in Rural India
Tanay Balantrapu, Ashwati Menon | December 11, 2014
The Government of India’s Swachh Bharat Mission aims to make India “open-defecation free” by 2019. While it is a laudable goal, it is worth noting that a variety of government-driven sanitation programmes of the past, which included both subsidies and … Read More
Electronic Data Collection – An Overview for Beginners
Sneha Mani, Suraj Nair | November 24, 2014
Today, electronic data collection finds application in various walks of life – be it in hospitals, industries, or offices. Since the advent of Open Data Kit (ODK) and Survey CTO,among other software platforms, electronic data collection has drastically changed the … Read More
How Cultural Beliefs and Attitudes of Women Influence Women’s Participation in Economic Development
LEAD Research Team | November 17, 2014
Previous studies on women’s role in agriculture and nutrition have indicated that women’s empowerment in agriculture is positively associated with per adult equivalent calorie availability and dietary diversity (Malapit 2013).  Research has also found that a woman’s decision-making autonomy has … Read More
Bridging the Last Mile: Evaluation of Mobile Phone-based Agricultural Extension
LEAD Research Team | November 12, 2014
In 2011, we launched a large-scale field experiment to evaluate a service (Avaaj Otalo, or AO) that delivers mobile-phone-based agricultural information to cotton farmers in western India. This service provides weekly agricultural advice in the form of voice calls to … Read More
Can Qualitative Research be Rigorous? Part 3: Sample Size
LEAD Research Team | November 10, 2014
Since the last post, I’ve had the opportunity to witness a couple of dialogues on the quantitative vs. qualitative debate; some were more encouraging than others. The first was during a panel session at the fall conference in Manila, where … Read More
Women’s Empowerment: The Importance of Micro-Level Indicators
Arpita Khanna, Monisha Mason | November 6, 2014
Women’s empowerment is usually measured by several macro level indicators such as fertility rates, literacy rates, participation in the labor force, and involvement in political affairs. While the importance of these is undisputed, we believe there is also a lot … Read More
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