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30 of 45One in every 250 young men in Punjab and Delhi is in prison
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Using India's e-courts data to answer questions around access to justice
The e-courts database has become an important repository of India's judicial data, and has opened up possibilities of deep empirical research. We describe the dataset, explore what can be done using the data, and note the problems with the data that pose barri…
Expected Time of Arrival
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Minimum temperatures in India are rising faster than maximum temperatures
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Regional variations in seasonal temperatures
India is warming, but the magnitude of this warming varies widely by season and geography. Winter sees the most uniform warming across the country, while the monsoon shows the clearest evidence of sustained long-term warming.
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Is India's workforce feminising?
The number of women in India's workforce has grown after a period of decline. But does this increase translate into better, and better-paying jobs? We examine the sectors of the economy that are getting feminised.
More pre-teens in India have used the internet than people in their 40s
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Weight, wages and wayfinding
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The will of the state
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Manufacturing has played a shrinking role in most industrialised states in India
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Prisoners of our conscience
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A higher education is associated with a significant wage premium in India
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The highs and the lows
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The gap in life expectancy between India and the UK has halved since Independence
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Getting the ABCs right
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Measuring obesity in India
Given the rise of obesity in India, examining how it is understood and measured becomes vital. Different measures have their own limitations, but can point to risk factors.
Obesity in India
Rates of obesity have grown sharply in India, especially among women and among the poorest households. At the same time, the way we measure obesity needs a re-examination.
Most tobacco consumption in India is of gutkha, not cigarettes
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GDP, Graduates and Graphs to Go
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Kutcha/ pucca
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The number of homicide victims in India has fallen, but only for men
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Missing millions
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More than a quarter of rural households have no separate kitchen
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Formally stuck
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How India's GDP adds up, and what has changed
The measurement of India's GDP, and changes to the methodology in 2026, have been widely discussed globally. In this piece we lay out how India's GDP is calculated, and enumerate the recent changes and their implications.
The choice of baseline affects how we see warming
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Death, on average
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Graduates in India
A growing share of adult Indians now have an undergraduate degree. In this article, we examine what India's undergraduates are studying, where they graduate from, and how this compares with other countries.