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Do richer people have more children? Evidence from widow suicides in colonial...
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green investigate the relationship between fertility and wealth in a non-European context in an effort to better understand global income distribution. The...
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Are nutrition programmes serving children in Bihar?
A recent IGC Working Paper by Andrew Fraker, Neil Buddy Shah, and Ronald Abraham assesses the performance of Bihar’s ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme as a first step toward designing policy...
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Child rights in the Indian media: Barriers and enablers
Working with activists, academics, NGOs and other child-rights experts in India, Kenya and Brazil, Internews Europe conducted in-depth research to assess the media’s role in protecting and promoting...
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The campaign to include India’s children in urban planning
Preeti Prada draws attention to the problem of ignoring the preferences of ‘tomorrow’s citizens’ in city planning and discusses how the Humara Bachpan campaign is seeking to address this by giving...
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Religion and health in early childhood: Evidence from South Asia
The widespread malnutrition of children in South Asia is persistent and troubling. Given the importance of religion in the region, Elizabeth Brainerd and Nidhiya Menon examine the relationship between...
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Do richer people have more children? Evidence from widow suicides in colonial...
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Elliott Green investigate the relationship between fertility and wealth in a non-European context in an effort to better understand global income distribution. The...
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Are nutrition programmes serving children in Bihar?
A recent IGC Working Paper by Andrew Fraker, Neil Buddy Shah, and Ronald Abraham assesses the performance of Bihar’s ICDS Supplementary Nutrition Programme as a first step toward designing policy...
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Child rights in the Indian media: Barriers and enablers
Working with activists, academics, NGOs and other child-rights experts in India, Kenya and Brazil, Internews Europe conducted in-depth research to assess the media’s role in protecting and promoting...
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The campaign to include India’s children in urban planning
Preeti Prada draws attention to the problem of ignoring the preferences of ‘tomorrow’s citizens’ in city planning and discusses how the Humara Bachpan campaign is seeking to address this by giving...
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Protecting domestic worker rights in Bangladesh: Could a cross-class alliance...
There are almost two million domestic workers in Bangladesh. The informal nature of their employment, limited legal protections and heterogeneous nature of the workers puts them in a vulnerable...
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Reviewing India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act three years on
The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) was enacted in 2012. Srishti Agnihotri and Minakshi Das offer a three pronged analysis of the progress of the POCSO Act so far from the...
View ArticleGuaranteeing children with disabilities the right to be heard
Following their analysis of the 2012 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act Srishti Agnihotri and Minakshi Das consider the specific challenges associated with ending the sexual abuse of...
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Child mortality in South Asia: Preventable diseases and scaling up...
To accelerate robust growth and aspire to global power status, South Asian countries must improve their child health indicators. Drawing on her professional advocacy and communications experience in...
View ArticleStrengthening the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
Judges tasked with dealing with cases of child sexual abuse have pointed to deficient infrastructure causing delays and making it hard to meet timelines set by the 2012 POSCO Act. Minakshi Das reviews...
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Book Review: Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers...
In Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States, editor Sari K. Ishii brings together contributors to explore new and emerging patterns of transnational marriage...
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The regressive and restrictive Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill does little to...
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill approved by the Union Cabinet in August 2016 proposes a complete ban on commercial surrogacy and advocates solely its altruistic form. Anjora Sarangi writes there is a...
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Where is the $2 billion for Indian mothers?
Indian mothers are all too frequently underweight during their pregnancies and unable to produce sufficient breastmilk when their babies are born, perpetuating malnutrition among their children. Swati...
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Beyond Tayyaba: Tackling rural poverty to reduce child labour
Following headlines about the abuse of a domestic worker in a judge’s house in December 2016, Abdur Rehman Cheema and Sultana Ali analyse the wider problem of child labour in Pakistan. Drawing on their...
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“Despite the prevalence of child abandonment in Pakistan there are no formal...
At Pakistan @ 70: LSE Pakistan Summit 2017 Tahera Hasan spoke on the Philanthropy and Institution-Building panel in her capacity as Director of Imkaan Welfare Organisation. After the session Sonali...
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Aadhaar and the Mid Day Meal Scheme: A denial of basic rights
Earlier this month, the government of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh announced children would require an Aadhaar card to claim food from the Mid Day Meal Scheme as of 30 June, in line with...
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