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 ...

Due to a ban on cross-border transportation, the prices of hilsa fish in Kolkata have hiked, despite imports from Burma and other parts of India (Sur 2024). Farida Akhtar, the interim government’s ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are published in the Special Article and Notes sections. Click here for summary ...

Country-wise OOPE estimates and other health financing indicators based on the System of Health Accounts 20111 are reported by the World Health Organization’s Global Health Expenditure Database.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...