Seasonal internal migration is a common coping livelihood strategy among rural households. It usually involves the migration of labourers from areas of lesser demand for labour to those with higher ...

In this paper, the nature of convergence or divergence in the level of development across Indian states is re-examined using the coefficient of variation technique and by classification of states into ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

The Annual Survey of Industries results for 2023–24 provide some interesting insights into the recent trends in the factory sector. The results show that the growth in the number of factories, which ...

Once treated as marginal, it has become a region of difficult choices and mounting pressures. Rich in resources, strategically located, and ecologically fragile, it now figures in global trade, energy ...

In line with established intellectual traditions—whether nationalist, Marxist or otherwise—India’s tribal population concentrated in the marginal topography of relatively isolated hills and forests, ...

In November 2024, the Supreme Court delivered a 95-page-long judgment, In Re: Directions in the Matter of Demolition of Structures (2024) (hereafter In Re: Directions), answering a question it had ...

In India, there has been a dominant discourse on low internal migration. This had emerged predominantly from official statistics—theIn India, there has been a dominant discourse on low internal ...

The recent policy change from a restrictive to a more liberal approach is one such instance. However, discretionary policies often lead to unintended outcomes. In 2014, the Congress-led United ...

Bihar’s chronically poor health outcomes reflect a deeper structural malaise in India’s health financing and delivery systems. With a score of only 31 on NITI Aayog’s Health Index (2019–20), Bihar ...

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.         —Peter DruckerTwo years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2022) stated that global carbon ...

Infrastructure holds a privileged and largely unchallenged status within India’s developmental imagination. Rural roads, in particular, are valorised as instruments of progress—connecting isolated ...