If politicians and policy makers want a productive and healthy workforce, they will need to care about encouraging and rewarding our intrinsic instincts to perform such unhistoric, hidden acts of care.
Sadly, this remains a footnote in the standard framework of appraising programmes. People become passive beneficiaries in elite policy debates — data points for tracking votes, coverage or leakage, robbed of all dignity and agency
She centred and privileged women’s bodies, personal lives and social relationships in the study of economic behaviour. Let us hope the policy world follows
Knowledge is not gathering mounds of information. It is processing that information and translating it into useable propositions that makes people and organisations learners. Two top development economists show the path to a genuine learning state.
Leveraging technology for effective program delivery poses unique challenges. Technology is a tool that requires a capable state to be effective; also, it creates new power asymmetries. Three well-known economists weigh in.
India is no longer largely chronically poor; it is now more unequal and vulnerable with pockets of deep poverty. Its future shared prosperity will depend to a large extent on how its social protection system evolves and catches up with its diversity and demography. World Bank economists weigh in.
