Understanding India’s Global Engagements

This working paper looks at India’s fast growing and emerging economy and its rise in global power by considering how valid this external perception is when, in reality, India’s many States experience widespread conflict, poverty and under-nutrition. This paper reviews some of the future challenges, especially around working in the G20, and in handling issues […]

This working paper considers how different returns, both tangible and less tangible, are reflected in social discrimination involving individuals with the same entitlements but from different social groups. This paper suggests strategies to tackle India’s State-specific social classifications and manifestations, and the discrimination which has stemmed from people’s position in the class system, in caste/religious […]

More people in South Asia are facing malnutrition than in Africa. This working paper examines established policies that affect food security measures in India. With employment programmes such as NREGS, government programmes such as TPDS including AAY, nutrition programmes like mid-day meals, and ICDS to improve food and nutrition security, this paper argues that India […]