Member publications consists of articles and papers contributed by members of the Foundation to leading newspapers, magazines, and journals. Articles & Opinions and Bibliography comprise a repository of academic articles on education and other allied domains such as health, livelihoods and sustainability.

Member Publications

By ​Seema Purushothaman
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
June 01, 2013
Sustainable management of natural resources in small scale agriculture is a less debated issue, especially its governance aspects. Focusing on selected villages where a policy towards sustainable agriculture has been introduced in...
By S. Giridhar
Indian Express
May 30, 2013
Apart from the annual lament of why Indian universities do not feature in the world’s top 200, there has been a recent clamour that “innovation and leadership” is a mantra to create outstanding centres of higher education. The ministry of...
By Anurag Behar
Livemint
May 29, 2013
The school was painted canary yellow. I haven’t seen another school of that colour. It was perched at one end of the village far away from the houses, where the steep slope began. The village of 1,000 people was on a mountain top higher...
By Dileep Ranjekar
Human Capital
May 12, 2013
Many of my corporate friends and colleagues are probably not going to like it, however, I on…
By Narayanan A
The Times of India
May 11, 2013
The election results are in: the Congress has won big and BJP has lost badly. Is this a vote against BJP's record of poor governance and corruption? Or is it a positive vote for Congress, as the Lingayat community has returned to the...
By Chandan Gowda
The Times of India
May 02, 2013
In our cynical times, an election manifesto seems like a menu of assurances to lure voters. Although not legally enforceable, the winning party feels obliged to fulfil at least a few of its manifesto declarations, while the electorate does...

Articles & Opinions

Bibliography

Public Policy in Early Childhood Education and Care

By Hasan, Abrar
International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy
May-2007
The paper has two main objectives. First, it presents an analytical framework for examining and developing policies for early childhood education and care (ECEC) in advanced industrialized countries.
Category: Early Childhood Education Policy

Bridging Research and Policy on Education, Training and their Enabling Environments

By Kenneth King, Robert Palmer, Rachel Hayman
Journal of International Development
August-2005
This paper revisits the research origins of one well-known claim which has been used in policy documents over the past 25 years, namely that four years of education increase agricultural productivity.
Category: Sustainable Development