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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Floods and Recurring Natural Disasters in India

Gurinder Kaur Disasters have been repeatedly being hit in the India. After two weeks of extremely hot and long dry weather, the monsoon winds brought heavy rains to the hilly northern states of India (Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand) and the southwest…

Poverty In India Is On The Rise Again

Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Keshari Parida In the absence of CES data, the Periodic Labour Force Survey shows a rise in the absolute number of the poor India has not released its Consumption Expenditure Survey (CES) data since 2011-12. Normally…

Climate Change and its Socio-Economic Impact

In South Asia, India has a huge role to play in the field of climate change, given the enormity of its industrialisation levels. In the 1970s and 80s, we had little clue about how climate change would impact India but one thing was amply clear that unequal development patterns between developed and developing countries and greed were the biggest polluters — eloquently voiced by then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi.

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