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Policy analysis

COVID-19

How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Asia’s indigenous women

Lockdown measures and restrictive policies in the wake of COVID-19 have led to shrinkage of livelihood options for indigenous women and severely affected household...

OWSA Contributor - 28 January 2022

COVID-19

Micro-estimates of wealth data ‘can help tackle poverty’

Around 97 million people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2021. Now, researchers at the University of California and the Data for Good programme...

SciDevNet - 27 January 2022

COVID-19

India should spend its way out of post-COVID-19 economic crisis

In view of the structural break in the global economy as well as the domestic economy, the government’s budget plans should be two-pronged —...

Policy Circle - 27 January 2022

India

Budget 2022: Government faces Hamletian dilemma on subsidies

The government would like to cut subsidies in Budget 2022, but the question is whether it can afford to do it just ahead of...

Policy Circle - 24 January 2022

Civil society

Human rights violations and culture of impunity in SouthAsia

South Asian countries are grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent, a report...

Inter Press Service - 23 January 2022

Civil society

Inequality doesn’t kill. Destitution kills.

From the perspectives of developmental economics, economic equality is not the greatest of virtues; neither is economic inequality the worst of vices. By Anuj Kumar...

OWSA Contributor - 22 January 2022

Health

Why is the National Health Authority so focused on the for-profit medical sector?

India’s health system needs transformative reforms. An institutional arrangement like the NHA legitimises the role of the “for-profit” private sector in government. Commercial or...

OWSA Contributor - 18 January 2022

Civil society