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Paper November 19, 2018

What’s In A Definition?: A Study on Implications and Suitability of Urban Definitions in India through its Employment Guarantee Programme

By Vaidehi Tandel, Komal Hiranandani & Mudit Kapoor

This paper discusses the political economy of definitions of urban and rural in India. When using alternative definitions of urban, we find that India is much more urban than is officially recognised and present a case for alternate definitions.

Report November 15, 2018

Safety Trends And Reporting Of Crime (SATARC)

By Avanti Durani, Rithika Kumar, Renuka Sane & Neha Sinha

A survey of 20,597 households across Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru to assess households’ perception of safety and the police, identify behavioural changes adopted by households to avoid victimisation, and estimate the incidence of crime.

Report October 3, 2018

India Infrastructure Report: Making Housing Affordable

By Kshitij Batra, Sahil Gandhi, Pritika Hingorani, Swapnil Bhandari, Meenaz Munshi, Vaidehi Tandel, Harshita Agrawal & Rohan Shridhar

Land and real estate markets in Indian cities have been overly regulated for a long time. Builders in India today are merely responding to incentives created by the current regulatory framework.

Paper August 8, 2018

Mismatched Governance: Exploring the Relationship Between Rural and Urban Governance Forms and Urban Development in India

By Komal Hiranandani

This Working Paper by former Senior Associate, Komal Hiranandani, was submitted to Cornell University as her Master of Science thesis, and was partially supported by IDFC Institute.

Paper August 1, 2018

Political Diversity and Competition in India

By Vishal More, Ishita Trivedi & Swapnil Bhandari

Utilizing data on election results from 1952 to 2017, covering all 16 Lok Sabha or Parliamentary Constituency elections and last 3 elections for each state/UT assemblies

Journal Article November 29, 2017

Approaches to Justice in India – A Report by DAKSH

By Neha Sinha, Avanti Durani & Rithika Kumar

From the state of the Indian judiciary to the circumstances of justice delivery in India.

Blog November 28, 2017

Safety Trends and Reporting of Crime – A Crime Victimisation Survey

By Avanti Durani

Public Seminar hosted by NIPFP featuring the “Safety Trends and Reporting of Crime – A Crime Victimisation Survey”.

Op-ed September 28, 2017

Opinion | Why 87% of Delhi Homes Start Worrying if Women are Not Home by 9PM

By Neha Sinha & Avanti Durani

The poor sense of safety and consequent adaptive behaviours adopted by households using SATARC Survey data.

Op-ed September 27, 2017

Opinion| Why do more than 90% thefts in India’s metro cities go unreported

By Neha Sinha & Avanti Durani

The state of underreporting of crime in 4 major cities of India.

Report August 28, 2017

Ease of Doing Business: An Enterprise Survey of Indian States

By Vivek Dehejia, Komal Hiranandani, Rithika Kumar, Shamika Ravi, Kadambari Shah & Vaidehi Tandel

Ease of Doing Business: An Enterprise Survey of Indian States draws upon trends across states, sectors and types of firms, proposing reforms to facilitate doing business and create an enabling ecosystem.

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