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IMPRI, a startup research think tank, is a platform for pro-active, independent, non-partisan and policy-based research. It contributes to debates and deliberations for action-based solutions to a host of strategic issues. IMPRI is committed to democracy, mobilization and community building.

Global Economic Costs of Visual Impairment and Blindness

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IMPRI TeamOur eyes are the points of primary access to the world around us. They allow us to interact with it and facilitate physical,...

Cataracts and their Surgeries

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IMPRI TeamIndia was the first country to launch a publicly funded program solely dedicated to controlling blindness and visual impairment, with the National Programme...

Investors must Caution: Share Market Boom or Bubble?

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There is a wave in the Indian stock market. The index continues to set a record high making Investors extremely happy. About 30 stocks have given 100% returns since February. The enthusiasm of investors can be guessed from the fact that in the first two months of the current financial year alone, 44.7 lakh retail investors have opened their accounts. So is the stock market reaching record highs the expectation of the Indian economy?

Economic Development at Whose Cost? Who Pays for Climate Change’s Impact...

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Krishna RajThe interrelationship between climate change, public health, and Covid-19 is well established. Especially, the Economic Cost of Climate change is pervasive and increasingly...

Historical Determinants of Gender Inequality

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Although women are disadvantaged in different walks of life everywhere, they enjoy much better status in some societies than others. Perception regarding women’s rights and abilities vary starkly across countries. For instance, while only 1.8% and 5.2% of respondents of the World Values Survey[1] agree with the statements that “men make better political leaders than women do” and “men should have more right to a job than women in times of scarcity” in Iceland, the corresponding numbers are 89.4% and 83% for Egypt. The averages from over 130,000 responses from 83 countries for the two statements are 36.1% and 32.4%, respectively.

The Future of Labour Codes: Impact and Way Forward from Trade...

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Arjun Kumar, Anshula Mehta, Sunidhi Agarwal, Ritika Gupta, Mahima Kapoor, Swati SolankiIn 2020, the Union Government of India finalized rule under 4 labour codes,...

Retrospective Tax, Retrograde Social Values: Last Week in India | W31...

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T K ArunIndia swooned to the swoosh and thump of a javelin that hit its golden mark at the Tokyo Olympics, moved to withdraw...

Put the Cost of Superfluous Litigation on Bureaucrats

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A starved judiciary with only 19.78 judges per million population —in contrast, the US has 150 per million— is a reason enough to slap litigation costs of ‘drag litigation’ upon administrative heads of institutions.

National Sports Teams are Built in Villages of India

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As Indian sportspersons are shining on the grounds of Tokyo Olympics, the country, and indeed the world, is beginning to hear their amazing stories. These are stories of struggle, passion, aspiration and stunning talent. Whether boxers or hockey players or wrestlers and javelin throwers, these men and women come from hitherto unheard of locations on the map of India…Nongpok Katching in Manipur, Simdega in Jharkhand, Sundergarh in Odisha, Golaghat in Assam.

Is Essential Defence Services Bill a Colonial Practice to Ban Strikes?

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The Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, prohibits workers engaged in essential defence services from striking work especially in light of the decision to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board. The Bill, 2021, violates two resolutions of the International Labour Conference, which provides guidelines for ILO’s policy, and emphasise the recognition of the right to strike. ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association considers the right to strike as one of the essential means available to workers for the protection of their interests and explains how trade unions will be rendered powerless.