Rohini Pande

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Rohini Pande is the Henry J Heinz II professor of economics and director of the Economic Growth Centre at Yale University.

The budget relegated women’s economic participation to secondary importance

Fri, Feb 14, 2020

Pulling women into the economy isn’t a function of budget alone, but also policy design, political will.

How India can use better data and regulations to stop industries from choking its cities

Mon, Aug 13, 2018

Why does India have 14 of the world’s 20 cities with highest air pollution when it has set limits and stipulated strict criminal punishments to enforce them? And what's a possible solution?

For a house to become a home

Mon, Jan 30, 2017

The poor often spurn government housing programmes because they do not want to risk losing their social networks.

April wasn’t January

Fri, May 13, 2016

Neither pollution nor congestion significantly decreased as they did during the January experiment. An enduring solution lies in scaling up the smaller, successful programmes.