Research on South Asia
This page brings together our recommendations for the latest research in South Asia.
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Our Latest Recommendations
This text has been assigned as required reading for the spring CDE elective, Program Evaluation.
This executive summary on JPAL describes an article exploring the effect of a change in gender quotas for village leadership in India.
This executive summary from JPAL provides a synopsis of the microcredit intervention that finds mediocre effects of microcredit, perhaps because loosening credit constraints doesn’t help much if not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur.
In this study, a group of female researchers explores what happens to norms around women when women take on leadership positions in their communities.
In this study, Esther Duflo and Raghabendra Chattopadhyay compare how women spend and how men spend when they’re in positions of leadership in India.
Straight from the Source
The latest research from the ADB
- Labor Migration in Asia: Impacts of the COVID-19 Crisis and the Post-Pandemic FutureThe COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on economies, businesses, and workers, and in Asia and many other regions, migrant workers have been among the most affected.
- Does GVC Participation Improve Firm Productivity? A Study of Three Developing Asian CountriesAchieving high productivity enables firms to participate in global value chains (GVCs), and their participation in GVCs in turn increases their productivity.
- Asian Development Review: Volume 38, Number 1This edition features studies on seasonal labor mobility in the Pacific as well as development issues relating to population aging, education, and the labor market in Asia.
Brookings on India
- How India should deal with Gotabaya’s Sri Lanka
- Report Launch & Panel Discussion | Reviving Higher Education in IndiaBrookings India is launching a report on “Reviving Higher Education in India”, followed by a panel discussion. The report provides a unique and comprehensive analysis of the challenges facing the higher education sector in India and makes policy recommendations to reform the space. Abstract: In the last two decades, India has seen a rapid expansion in…