State of Working India 2021
This report documents the impact of one year of Covid-19 in India, on jobs, incomes, inequality, and poverty.
Read More"Strengthening the foundation of education", By Anurag Behar, Livemint, November 2017
Coorg is beautiful. It is a 5-hour drive from Bengaluru. A friend bought land there to build a house. A getaway for long weekends, and perhaps their retirement home. A year after he started building, he wanted advise on solar panels.
Read More"A pandemic-optimized plan for kids to resume their education", By Anurag Behar
Schools must reopen and our children must return to education. They have been effectively shut since March 2020. Just as they had started opening up, a second wave of the pandemic overwhelmed India. This period has made the inefficacy of online education clear.
Read MoreHow about studying sciences in Kannada? by Manjunath S.V., Bfirst.com, November 2017
Azim Premji University has launched an ambitious initiative to make available quality resource material in Hindi and Kannada through its translations initiative
Read MoreCOVID-19 Response
Azim Premji Foundation and Wipro jointly commenced efforts to support the civil society response and help in responding to the pandemic.
Read MoreRural school teachers are trailblazers, ensuring students' scientific temper is not confined to rote-learning by S Giridhar, Firstpost, October 2017
At the upper primary school, Sunali in the hills of Purola, Chandrabhushan's aim is to help his children make connections between textbooks and the world.
Read MoreIn Uttarkashi schools, a poem inspires teachers to reflect on classroom interactions, make learning fun for students by S. Giridhar, Firstpost, October 2017
Uttarkashi receives lashings of rain during the monsoon, villages get cut off, the Bhagirathi river turns turgid and it is a time of dangerous landslides as boulders come crashing down the verdant and rugged Garhwal hills.
Read MoreLoss of Learning during the Pandemic
This study, undertaken in January 2021, reveals the extent and nature of the ‘forgetting/regression’ kind of learning loss among children in public schools.
Read More"Need `Schooling for All’ – But Indian Middle-Class is not convinced" By V Santhakumar, Economics in Action Blog , March 2018
I got an opportunity to interact with a set of undergraduate students when Shashank, a colleague in the university, invited me to take a guest lecture in his course on `school and society’.
Read MoreAdam Smith on the Philosophy and Provision of Education By Alex M. Thomas, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, November 2017
This article examines the views of Adam Smith on the philosophy and provision of education.
Read MoreResearch needs public support to prosper by Anurag Behar, Livemint, October 2017
India cannot progress to its potential of building a good society without high-quality research
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