There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While
that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities …

India lacks an authoritative estimate of the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. We
report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic's start …

The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates
back to 2011, which is when India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality …

This paper estimates how strongly COVID-19 containment policies have impacted
aggregate economic activity. We use a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate …

We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household
finances to examine the incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We …

India is a leading global hotspot for extreme heat waves induced by climate change. The
social demography of India is centered on its caste hierarchy rooted in endogamous …

The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates
back to 2011, which underpins the last official estimates of poverty and inequality. This …

There has been an increase in economic inequality in India over the past few decades, with
the rich-poor gaps among the largest of several peer economies. Household surveys show …

The introduction of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) heralded a methodological
innovation for the study of Indian labour, allowing the researcher to build panels tracking …

Attempts have been made to estimate poverty in India using a biased dataset, by adjusting
household weights to remove or reduce the bias. The effectiveness of this method, however …