Protecting health in dry cities: considerations for policy makers Sonalde Desai Howard Frumkin, Maitreyi Bordia Das, Maya Negev, Briony C Rogers, Roberto Bertollini and Carlos Dora

Increasing health and wellbeing in cities that experience water scarcity presents challenges, but can be done, say Howard Frumkin and colleagues. Click here to read more

Time use patterns and household adversities: A lens to understand the construction of gender privilege among children and adolescents in India Dibyasree Ganguly Kriti Vikram and Srinivas Goli

We investigate gender differences in time-use patterns in 1891 children and assess how time is reallocated in response to challenges faced by households in India. We use adaptations made within a household during adversities to understand how gender inequality in time use is produced and...   Read More

“What Do the Latest Estimates Reveal?” | On the Adequacy of the Quarterly Periodic Labour Force Survey Gurucharan Manna

This article examines the difference between the estimates of unemployment rate and worker population ratio in urban areas in the Periodic Labour Force Surveys for the quarters ending March and June 2021. It further investigates the sample size needed if the survey is to be...   Read More

India Covid-19 Poverty Monitor – January 2022 Santanu Pramanik Manjistha Banerji Dinesh Kumar Tiwari Bijay Chouhan Pallavi Choudhuri Sonalde Desai A Lenhardt

India Covid-19 Poverty Monitor bulletin is compiled by NCAER National Data Innovation Centre and The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN) hosted at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) in London, using a combination of original qualitative data collected from a small number of affected people in...   Read More

Male Out-Migration and the Health of Left-Behind Wives in India: The Roles of Remittances, Household Responsibilities, and Autonomy Sonalde Desai Lei Lei

Social Science & Medicine, Volume 280, July 2021 In developing countries, labor out-migration has led to millions of married couples living apart from each other. Male out-migration brings economic benefits to the families in places of origin, but also leads to profound changes in the...   Read More