Publications
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Keeping Fraudulent Apps off App Stores
- INTERMEDIARY LIABILITY, Tech
A policy brief to highlight the need for strengthening oversight mechanisms on app stores.
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Making a Gender Responsive Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme
- SOCIAL SECURITY
In the context of the pandemic and its severe impact on livelihoods in urban areas, this study looks at the principles that should underline a gender responsive urban employment guarantee scheme.
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EBooks: Building Blocks of India’s Knowledge Economy
- Education, Taxation, Tech
Despite the positive externalities associated with inexpensive books, eBooks are not afforded a favourable tax environment in India.
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Menstrual Hygiene Management – Lessons for States
- Gender, MHM
Studying the best practices of Tamil Nadu and how it has achieved its current levels of menstrual hygiene practices, this study makes recommendations that can be replicated across other states in India.
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Framework for Regulating Encryption in India
- Privacy, Tech Policy
This study envisions a framework that acknowledges the importance of consumer privacy & technological innovation, while not diminishing the role of the government in protecting national security.
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Advancing gender equality in a post COVID context
- COVID, Gender, SOCIAL SECURITY
If evidence from previous disasters and crises is any indication, women will be disproportionately affected during the pandemic.
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Addressing the barriers to adoption in digital payments
- Digital Payments, Tech Policy
The Indian economy is a predominantly cash driven economy. While the penetration of digital payments has increased significantly in the last decade, cash still continues to dominate.
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Women’s Economic Empowerment in India – A Policy Landscape Study
- Gender
Employing a critical gender lens, this study identifies promising exemplars of transformative policies that create an enabling environment for women’s economic empowerment in India.
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Women Entrepreneurs in Sanitation
- Entrepreneurship, Gender, SANITATION
Leveraging insights gleaned from ground level case studies, this report advocates for more systematic government support for women entrepreneurs in general and more specifically, in the context of sanitation.
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India’s focus on its youth – Analysis of the Union Budget
- BUDGET, FISCAL POLICY
Despite being home to one of the youngest populations in the world, India spends less than 4% of its annual budget on youth-focused schemes.
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Menstrual Waste Disposal: Where does India stand and how do we address the challenge?
- SANITATION, SUSTAINABILITY
A study for the NFSSM Alliance to understand the menstrual waste value chain & possible solutions to the ballooning problem of waste disposal.
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Saving the economy from COVID-19
- ECONOMIC RECOVERY, SOCIAL SECURITY
A detailed analysis of the different measures announced by the Finance Minister, their likely impact on India’s economic recovery and potential challenges in implementation
