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Formalising care work can pay gender justice dividends

New data shows slow progress towards gender equality, with India ranking 129th in the Global Gender Gap Report.

In privatised childcare, there are still outdated curricula and meals lacking nutrition. Here, there is a need for government to set the guardrails and encourage further innovation and growth. (Photo by Raj K Raj/ Hindustan Times) (Raj K Raj/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jul 20, 2024 09:14 PM IST

India needs more women leaders in health care

Optimising pathways to accelerate women’s leadership requires breaking away from sociocultural beliefs and making equal opportunities available to all

The Union Budget’s Nari Shakti initiatives reinstated this by equipping women with tools to steer change and lead the way towards a brighter tomorrow. (HT Photo)
Updated on Feb 27, 2022 05:43 PM IST

Mission Karmayogi: An ambitious plan to bolster State capacity

At the heart of the mission is the recognition that providing training opportunities to senior bureaucrats by sponsoring them to attend elite institutions has not been enough.

As the pandemic adds new complexities to education, income, food, and health systems, it is natural to look to the biggest players in development — the central and state governments — to increase expenditure and the quality of programme implementation.(Amal KS/HT PHOTO)
Updated on Oct 12, 2020 07:55 PM IST
ByIqbal Singh Dhaliwal and Shagun Sabarwal

Policymakers must use data to finesse governance

Researchers using randomised evaluations in development economics continue to bring new frameworks to persistent policy problems, and test solutions that are based on the intricacies of people’s lives, their decisions, and their realities

As the associate director of J-PAL South Asia, an organisation founded by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee in 2007, the mainstay of my team’s work has been to act as an enabler and facilitator for policymakers to use the insights generated by Esther, Abhijit, and other researchers doing similar work, and to initiate new, policy-relevant research through regular government engagement and partnership.(AFP)
Updated on Oct 21, 2019 01:04 PM IST
ByShagun Sabarwal

Young women hold the key to skilling India

One of the ways to narrow the gender gap in India’s workforce is focusing on the country’s 253 million youth

An Indian labourer works on a salt pan in the outskirts of Nagaur district, Rajasthan, March 7. International Monetary Fund chief, Christine Lagarde said raising women’s participation in the workforce to the level of men could boost the Indian economy by 27%.(AFP)
Published on Mar 19, 2018 11:56 AM IST
ByShagun Sabarwal
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