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
- Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2021 Supplement: Renewed Outbreaks and Divergent RecoveriesThis publication provides updated economic projections for developing Asia and the Pacific.
- Impacts of Sanitation on Child Mortality and School Enrollment: A Country-Level AnalysisAnalysis of sanitation, health, and education using country-level data suggests that sanitation improves child health, increases enrollment,and leads to higher girls’ participation in schools.
- 15 Fairer Ways to Share Land for Better Infrastructure and Urban RenewalMeeting developing Asia and the Pacific’s demand for quality infrastructure and renewed urban environments that can support inclusive post-pandemic growth will require the steady but equitable acquisition of land.
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…