Unfortunately, from an empirical perspective, measuring individual welfare from household consumption surveys is challenging because the unit of observation is not the individual member of the ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

Kerala has had frequent recurrences of climate-related calamities in recent years. Over the last decade, the frequency of landslides as well as the number of fatalities and property damage caused by ...

EPW consults referees from a database of 200+ academicians in different fields of the social sciences on papers that are ...

This mobilisation has gained greater visibility since the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise to national power in 2014. Women have played an active role in advancing campaigns such as “love jihad,” ...

Indian cinema has been observed to be feudal in structure for decades. Although the Government of India acknow­ledged its status as an industry in the new millennium, the paternalistic hierarchical ...

India’s inflation targeting framework should consider targeting inflation, excluding food. Higher food prices are, more often, not demand-induced but supply-induced. Short-run monetary policy tools ...

Migration-driven urbanisation is a key feature in contemporary India. Internal migration of workers in India is often embedded in a complex socio-economic dynamic shaped by structural barriers, ...

Environmental problems arise from human interaction with the natural world (Attfield 2018). The environment is integral to a nation’s progress and its citizens’ overall quality of life.Environmental ...

Caste pride has yet again claimed a life in Tamil Nadu. On 27 July, Kavin Selvaganesh—a 27-year-old engineer—was brutally hacked to death in public by his partner’s brother, Surjith, who surrendered ...

Taken amid the slow but steady disappearance of the mentions of Kim Jong-Un’s predecessors (Park 2024), an emergent pattern offers much to understanding the DPRK’s current issues and options under a ...

The systematic dilution of flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) system retrofitting requirement, a pollution control technology, in mid-2025, after extending the deadline for its implementation several ...