This study attempts to develop a simple, interpretable index of environmental sustainability, which can facilitate benchmarking and cross-state comparisons on various parameters. … Read More
Institutions and Society
Fuel Adulteration
A study that implements as experimental intervention to understand and test policy solutions to gasoline adulteration in India. … Read More
Measuring Open Defecation in India Using Survey Questions: Evidence from a Randomised Survey Experiment
Sangita Vyas, Nikhil Srivastav, Divya Mary, Neeta Goel, Sujatha Srinivasan. Ajaykumar Tannirkulam, Radu Ban, Dean Spears, Diane Coffey
This paper presents findings from a study that investigates differences in reported open defecation between a question about latrine use or open defecation for every household member and a household-level question.
Service-level Agreements for Inclusive Urban Sanitation Services – Lessons from a Global Review
Sujatha Srinivasan
In 2017, BMGF/DFID commissioned a rapid cross-regional review of the outcomes of this partnership portfolio and identified lessons that can be applied to future projects and in cities’ future investments in sanitation services. This report documents key lessons from this … Read More
Engaging the Private Sector in Urban Sanitation Services – A Review of South Asian Cities
Sujatha Srinivasan
In 2017, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned a rapid review of the South Asia regional portfolio of BMGF/DFID comprising of city projects on public-private partnerships in urban sanitation delivery. This report presents a synthesis of findings and lessons … Read More
Conservation Agriculture: Documenting Adoption across the Gangetic Plains of India
Anil Bhargava, Camille Boudot, Andre Butle, Guillaume Chomé, Khushboo Gupta Senior, Rupika Singh, Urs Schulthess
Research efforts of the CGIAR have since been instrumental in adapting CA practices to cropping systems found across the developing world. This report presents findings from a study that rigorously evaluates the adoption of CA within the intensive rice-wheat cropping … Read More
Alleviating Constraints to Adoption of Improved Soil Fertility Management
Aprajit Mahajan, Andre Butler, Khushboo Gupta
This report presents findings from a randomized control trial of a new automated mobile system for delivering personalized fertilizer recommendations. This fertilizer decision support tool, Nutrient Expert (NE) for wheat, provides fertilizer input recommendations for specific fields and growing environments. … Read More
Adaptation to Persistent Drought & Groundwater Depletion: Evidence from Karnataka
Ram Fishman, Veeramalla Prakash, K. Raju
This report presents findings from a study that seeks to address the gap in literature on the combined impacts of the multi-year drought and continuing groundwater depletion afflicting Karnataka on various household outcomes; and the adaptation strategies adopted by farmers … Read More
Open Government Data and Evidence-based Socio-economic Policy Research In India: An Overview
Larquemin, A, Buteau, S, Mukhopadhyay, JP
Public entities are one of the main producers of socio-economic data around the world. The Open Government Data (OGD) movement encourages these entities to make their data publicly available in order to improve transparency and accountability, which are the two … Read More
Role of Temporal Diversity in Inferring Social Ties Based on Spatio-temporal Data
Deshana Desai, Harsh Nisar, Rishab Bhardawaj
The last two decades have seen a tremendous surge in research on social networks and their implications. In this paper, the authors introduce DAIICT Spatio-Temporal Network (DSSN), a spatiotemporal dataset of 0.7 million data points of continuous location data logged … Read More
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