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Fellowships and awards

=> UN Sustainable Development Goals Action Awards 2024 for Outstanding Initiatives
Last date to apply: June 17, 2024

=> JMOFA Taiwan Fellowship Program 2024
Last date to apply: June 30, 2024

=> Call of the public competition for the contracting of Trainee Predoctoral Research Staff 2024 (PIPF)
Last date to apply: June 25, 2024

=> PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers, 2024
Last date to apply: July 04, 2024

=> Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award-2025-26
Last date to apply: September 16, 2024

=> BIS Research Fellowship
Last date to apply: September 30, 2024



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IGIDR Research Publications

1. Goyal, Ashima and Ghosh, Taniya (2024). Fiscal policy: Pressures and progress. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies. Tayor & Francis


2. Chandrasekhar, S; Naraparaju, K and Sharma, A (2024). How Unequal Are Indian States?. In 'Revisiting Inequality:Theoretical and Methodological Advances with Empirical Examples from India' Ed. by Achin Chakraborty and Simantini Mukhopadhyay, Routledge ISBN:9781003477938


IGIDR Working Papers

1. Rozi Kumari and Pal, Rupayan (2024). Catastrophic Decline in Women Ownership of Firms in India: 2014-2022 (WP-2024-008)

Call for Proposals

KIX call for proposals: GPE KIX regional observatories on education system resilience
Application deadline: July 11, 2024

Call for Research Teams in Asia for Doing Research Assessments
Application deadline: July 19, 2024

Recent Reports and Publications

ADB=> Aging Well in Asia: Asian Development Policy Report

ILO=> Asia-Pacific Employment and Social Outlook 2024

MOSPI=> PLFS Quarterly Bulletin Jan to March, 2024

MOSPI=> National Accounts Statistics 2024

RBI=> Half Yearly Report on Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves: October 2023- March 2024

WEF=> Travel & Tourism Development Index 2024

Upcoming Conferences/Call for papers
National Conferences /Seminars
International Conferences /Seminars
CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research 2024, October 22-23, 2024

Last date for submission: June 14, 2024

Munich, Germany

EJPE-CEPR Political Economy Conference, September 23-24, 2024

Last date for submission: June 15, 2024

Napoli, Italy

The International Macroeconomics and Finance Programme Annual Meeting 2024, November 08, 2024

Last date for submission: June 28, 2024

London, UK

The World at a Turning Point: Cornell Conference on Development Economics and Law, October 03-05, 2024

Last date for submission: June 30, 2024

New York, USA

14th ifo Conference on Macroeconomicsand Survey Data, December 05-06, 2024

Last date for submission: July 15, 2024

Munich, Germany

KIX call for proposals: GPE KIX regional observatories on education system resilience, March 20-21, 2024

Last date for submission: October 16, 2024

Cambridge, USA

Database of the month
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The India Data Portal (IDP) offers researchers unrestricted access to free and reliable, value-added datasets on various socio-economic topics in India. By providing datasets from public domains and government sources, IDP ensures data is readily available for use and interpretation. Its interoperability feature allows users to merge datasets using local directory codes, enabling deeper insights and comprehensive analysis. Additionally, researchers can upload their own datasets for visualization and download complete datasets for thorough examination. Users can explore data on economic indicators, agriculture, demographics, health, education, environmental parameters, and COVID-19 statistics...



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OPENICPSR (Open Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) is a self-publishing repository by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), catering to social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. It offers researchers up to 30GB of free storage, immediate publication with DOI, and enhanced discoverability via ICPSR's catalog and search engines. This service ensures data preservation, compliance with FAIR principles, and funder requirements. openICPSR supports replication datasets, increasing research transparency and impact.

OER Commons (Open Educational Resources) is a comprehensive platform providing free and openly licensed teaching and learning materials. With over 50,000 resources, it allows educators to search, browse, and evaluate high-quality OER. These materials, often licensed under Creative Commons, can be used, reused, adapted, and shared freely. It provides access to a wide range of educational materials, including lesson plans, textbooks, interactive simulations, and multimedia content, across various subjects and educational levels. The platform encourages collaborative development and sharing of resources, supporting the customization and adaptation of materials to meet diverse educational needs...

Recent research articles
Occupational and asset adjustments in Tamil Nadu, India: The role of a finance and rebuilding program by Hossain, Marup ; Mullally, Conner; Mabiso, Athur

World Development, May 2024

Financial inclusion is important for long-term recovery from natural disaster-driven losses when access to safety nets or informal assistance fades away. We examine how an intervention promoting access to finance has altered primary occupations and asset accumulation among smallholders affected by the 2004 tsunami...

Social setting, gender, and preferences for improved sanitation: Evidence from experimental games in rural India by Pakhtigian, Emily L; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K

World Development, May 2024

Unimproved sanitation and hygiene practices present a persistent threat to public health and well-being. Increasing the adoption of safe hygiene and sanitation requires both technological investments as well as behavioral change, suggesting that social contexts may be important in determining the success...

Pandemic Containment and Inequality in a Developing Economy by Dasgupta, Kunal; Murali, Srinivasan

Economic Inquiry, April 2024

Using individual-level panel data from India, we show that income inequality between high-skilled and low-skilled workers increased following COVID-19 lockdown. Integrating a susceptible, infected, recovered, dead epidemiological model into a general equilibrium framework with high-skilled and low-skilled workers...

Water, Air Pollution and Carbon Footprints of Conspicuous/Luxury Consumption in India by Bhar, Soumyajit; Lele, Sharachchandra; Min, Jihoon; Rao, Narasimha D.

Ecological Economics, April 2024

The literature on the environmental impacts of household consumption in India focuses on carbon and ecological footprints of income groups. This article connects conspicuous/luxury (C/L) consumption in India to its local, regional and global environmental impacts. We evaluate carbon dioxide (CO_{2}), water, and particulate...

Social Identity and Learning: Adult Literacy Program in India by Bhardwaj, Sakshi; Shonchoy, Abu S.

Economics of Education Review, April 2024

The paper examines the effect of social identity on adult learning within a hierarchical social setting--an important yet often understudied issue for effective adult education. We leverage the random matching of students and teachers from a randomized controlled experiment in India, where illiterate adult female...

Statistical Resources

Database on Indian Economy (DBIE)

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