Economic and Political Weekly28m
Social Mobility and Opportunity in India
A total of 161 academic publications on the subjects of social mobility and opportunity in India that have appeared since the early 1960s and are concerned with one or more of educational, ...
Economic and Political Weekly1h
‘Legislative Lethargy’ in Protecting Informal Women Workers
This paper was written while pursuing a research project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, titled “In(visibility) in Law and Policy: Migrant Domestic Workers (Live-in) in ...
Economic and Political Weekly2h
Economic Surplus for Buyers in the Day-ahead Electricity Market
During October 2021 and February–March 2022, Indian power exchanges experienced a significant gap between buy and sell bids. In 309 time blocks, the market cleared at the maximum price due to the ...
Economic and Political Weekly2d
Tracing the Evolution of Ambedkar’s Life and Ideas in Their Context
The EPW produces independent and public-spirited scholarship and analyses of contemporary affairs every week. EPW is one of the few publications that keep alive the spirit of intellectual inquiry in ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
Review of Labour and Employment
Studies have proposed that work on digital labour platforms is precarious. This paper argues that there is heterogeneity of ...
Economic and Political Weekly10dOpinion
How Will Banks Recognise a Significant Increase in Credit Risk for IFRS-9 Purpose?
One of the most innovative components of the Reserve Bank of India’s proposed expected credit loss provisioning framework for ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
Ipsita Sarkar
EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
India’s Growth and Employment Patterns
The paper analyses the patterns and trends in the labour markets in India spanning over four decades from 1983 to 2024. It also examines the long-term trends in labour force participation rates with a ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
Shonima Nelliat
EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
The ‘Third’ Balance Sheet for Global Public Goods
Financing global public goods is a subject that elicits much interest, some passion, and little money. One of the best examples of a global public good is our climate. We all benefit from a liveable ...
Economic and Political Weekly6d
New Technologies, Employment, and Inequality in the Indian Economy
During the two decades since the 2000s, technological change in India has increased the demand of high-skilled labour, while reducing employment opportunities for low-skilled labour across both ...
Opinion
Economic and Political Weekly6dOpinion
75 Years of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949
Banks’ failure was a major phenomenon before the regulation legislation—365 banks failed during World War II and another 207 during 1946–50. The banks’ failures continued till 1951, three years after ...