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Fellowships and awards

=>Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellowships 2025
Last date to apply: August 10, 2025

=>OECD Co-operative Research Programme 2025
Last date to apply: September 10, 2025

=>MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
Last date to apply: September 10, 2025

=>IACRD: International Star Excellence Awards 2025
Last date to apply: November 20, 2025

=>BIS Research Fellowship (BISRF)
Last date to apply: March 31, 2026

=>Central Bank Research Fellowship (CBRF)
Last date to apply: March 31, 2026


Video of the month


IGIDR Working Papers

1. Nandwani, Bharti and Varma, Ishita (2025). Decentralisation of governance and maternal healthcare utilisation: Evidence from India (WP-2025-014).
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2. Kundu, Sumana (2025). Undertreatment in credence goods markets: when does a no liability rule outperform? (WP-2025-015)
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3. Kaur, Japneet (2025). Boys At Risk of Academic Decline? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study (WP-2025-016)
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4. Choudhary, Ayushi and Pal, Rupayan (2025). Quota Regulation under Corruption – Grand, Petty and the Cut-Money Culture (WP-2025-017)
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Recent Reports and Publications

LEG=> AI and the Global Economy: Unlocking Growth and Reshaping Work

MOSPI=> EnviStats India 2025: Environment Statistics

MOSPI=> PLFS Monthly Bulletin, May 2025

MOSPI=> Monthly Review Report on Infrastructure Performance April 2025

OECD=> Global Drought Outlook: Trends, Impacts and Policies to Adapt to a Drier World

OECD=> OECD Economic Outlook, Volume 2025 Issue 1: Tackling Uncertainty, Reviving Growth

WEF=> Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2025

WEF=> Global Gender Gap Report 2025

WEF=> Technology Convergence Report

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
19th International Joint Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE) and Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics), December 13-15, 2025

Last Date for submission: July 15, 2025

University of London, United Kingdom

CUHK-CEPR Workshop on Imperfect Expectations and Bounded Rationality, December 11-12, 2025

Last Date for submission: August 31, 2025

Hong Kong, China

Developments in Economics Education Conference 2025, September 11-12, 2025

Last Date for submission: August 8, 2025

University of Leeds, England

Long-Run Productivity Conference, November 20, 2025

Last Date for submission: September 1, 2025

United Kingdom

19th Workshop on Political Economy, November 28-29, 2025

Last Date for submission: October 5, 2025

Dresden, Germany

Database of the month
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Munify Municipal Database


The Munify Municipal Database is a national database built with the budget and accounts data of the municipal corporations of India, capable of handling queries. The Municipal Analysis module also has economic, projects, property tax and service sub-modules to add context to the financial data. The analysis is crystallised in the credit score and rankings. The platform includes powerful tools for querying, comparing, and analysing data across cities, along with contextual modules on economic indicators, taxation, service levels, and municipal bonds. Munify empowers policymakers, researchers, investors, and citizens by making local government finance transparent, accessible, and actionable...

Internet Resources
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OpenRefine is a powerful, free, open-source tool designed for working with messy data. It helps users clean, transform, and structure data efficiently converting it from one format to another and enriching it using web services and external sources. OpenRefine is widely used by data professionals, researchers, and journalists for data wrangling tasks such as removing duplicates, correcting inconsistencies, and standardising entries. It provides a spreadsheet-like interface with powerful transformation and filtering functions, making complex data operations accessible to non-programmers. The project is driven by the mission to make data engagement meaningful and inclusive, fostering a global, diverse, and supportive user community around open data practices....


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Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system that enables authors to create dynamic, high-quality, and reproducible content using plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks. Supporting languages like Python, R, Julia, and Observable, Quarto empowers users to produce articles, dashboards, presentations, blogs, books, and websites. It offers flexible output formats including HTML, PDF, MS Word, and ePub, and integrates seamlessly with publishing platforms such as Posit Connect and Confluence for organization-wide sharing. With support for Pandoc markdown, users can incorporate equations, citations, cross-references, figure panels, and advanced layouts to ensure clarity and professionalism in their documents. Quarto is designed to bridge coding and communication, making it an ideal tool for researchers, analysts, educators, and data-driven professionals...

Recent research articles
Understanding Farmers' Policy Preferences for Solar-Powered Irrigation Systems in Karnataka, India: A Choice Experiment Approach by Aditya Korekallu Srinivasa and Dagmar Mithöfer

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, June 2025

Solar-Powered Irrigation Systems (SPIS) are an important component of India's effort towards sustainable energy transition and are promoted with financial support under the PM-KUSUM program. In spite of the promise and the policy push, adoption of SPIS has been low. In this paper, we use a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) to...

Sand, Plantation Urbanism And The Extended Political Ecology Of Infrastructures In India by Siddharth Menon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, June 2025

This article has benefited from generative discussions at the Sawyer Seminar on ‘Interrogating the Plantationocene’ at UW-Madison in April 2019, the eighth Annual PhD Workshop at IIHS in Bangalore in January 2022, the AIIS Junior Fellows Annual Conference in New Delhi in December 2022, a seminar at the Center for Development...

The Impact of Oil Price Uncertainty on Working Capital Management: Evidence From India by Bilal Wani and Nufazil Altaf

Managerial and Decision Economics, June 2025

This study explores the impact of oil price uncertainty on working capital management for 21,051 nonfinancial Indian firms throughout 2000–2023. This study is based on the panel data set of 154,550 firm-year observations over 23 years from 2000 to 2023. We have proceeded with a fixed effect panel data regression model and robustness...

COVID-19 and the Unequal Distribution of Poverty Risks: Evidence From Urban India by Archana Dang, Mausumi Das and Indrani Gupta

Review of Development Economics, June 2025

This paper investigates poverty transitions and household predictors associated with different states of poverty transitions in India during the pandemic's first year (2020). Following the unexpected shock brought on by COVID, economic activity slowed down, presumably pushing many households into poverty. For poverty alleviation...

Why Do HFTs Use the Futures Market by Anirban Banerjee and Ashok Banerjee

Journal of Futures Market, June 2025

This study attempts to investigate the economic motivation of high-frequency traders (HFTs) to use single-stock futures (SSFs) contracts. Using a novel intraday data set from the largest exchange of SSFs, with identifiers for algorithmic traders, we attempt to disentangle the hedging and information-based trading motivations...

Fostering a Sustainability Transition Toward the Organic Farming Paradigm: A Policy Innovation Perspective by Rahul B. Hiremath et al

The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, June 2025

Despite the growing popularity of organic farming and its sustainability benefits, obstacles hinder widespread adoption. This study uses the Transformative Innovation Policy framework to explore strategies from leaders among 190 countries for promoting organic farming. We conducted a correspondence analysis of organic farming policy...

Statistical Resources

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