Poverty and Human Development

Report Title : Mapping the Social Economy of Dried Fish in South and Southeast Asia for Enhanced Wellbeing and Nutrition (India Component)  
Year of initiated : 2020
Researchers : Tara Nair and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsors : Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (through the University of Manitoba)
Report Title : Impact of Demand Side Financing Instruments on the Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and Bangladesh (Gujarat Component)
Year of initiated : 2020
Researcher : Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsors : Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum
Report Title : Evaluation of Ganga Swarupa Aarthik Sahay Yojana: A Study of Widows in Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2020
Researchers : Amrita Ghatak, Itishree Pattnaik and Jharna Pathak
Sponsors : Gender Resource Centre, Government of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
Report Title : Financialization and Its Impact on Domestic Economies: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry in the Context of Select Indian States
Year of initiated : 2016
Researchers : Tara S. Nair, Isabelle Guerin, Jayashree Ambewadikar and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsor : Indian Council f Social Science Research, New Delhi
Report Title : District-Level Estimation of Development Indicators for the State, Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2015
Researchers : Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati
Sponsor : Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi
Report Title : Model State Financial Inclusion Analysis  Kerala
Year of initiated : 2015
Researcher : Tara S. Nair
Sponsor : Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), Washington DC.
Report Title : Inter-generational Relations in Households with Elderly: A Study of Ahmedabad District, Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2014
Researchers : Rudra Narayan Mishra and Tanishtha Samanta
Sponsors : Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Report Title : Inclusive Finance India Report 2014
Year of initiated : 2014
Researcher : Tara S. Nair
Sponsor : Access Development Services, New Delhi
Report Title : Human Development Manual for Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2014
Researcher : Tara S. Nair
Sponsor : Gujarat State Infrastructure Development Board, Government of Gujarat
Report Title : Assessment of Outcomes of the Financial Literacy and Micro Enterprise Development Training  Programmes in Kachchh
Year of initiated : 2014
Researchers : Tara S. Nair and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsor : Indian School of Micro Finance for Women (ISMW), Ahmedabad
Report Title : Impacts of Employment Generation (NREGS) and Social Protection Policies on Rural Livelihoods in India: Case Studies in ICRISAT Villages in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
Year of initiated : 2013
Researchers : P.K. Viswanathan and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsor : International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad
Report Title : A Statistical Atlas of Livelihoods
Year of initiated : 2013
Researcher : Tara S. Nair
Sponsor : Access Development Services, New Delhi
Report Title : Lessons Learned from SEWA’s Interventions in Gujarat to Enhance Social Security of Members and Their Families
Year of initiated : 2013
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsors : Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad and Packard Foundation, U.S.A.
Report Title : Estimating MDGs for Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2013
Researcher : Biplab Dhak
Sponsors : UNICEF, Gandhinagar
Report Title : Estimating Socio-Economic Indicators at the District Level for Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2013
Researcher : Biplab Dhak
Sponsor : Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Report Title : Mapping Financial Inclusion Opportunities in Maharashtra
Year of initiated : 2013
Researcher : Tara S. Nair
Sponsor : Maharashtra State Rural Livelihood Mission, Mumbai
Report Title : District-Level Estimation of Development Indicators for the State, Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2013
Researchers : Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati
Sponsor : Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi
Report Title : Social Security Programme
Year of initiated : 2012
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Rudra Narayan Mishra
Sponsors : Lok Swasthya Mandli SEWA Trust, Ahmedabad
Report Title : Progress of Prospect of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2012
Researcher : Biplab Dhak
Sponsors : UNICEF, Gandhinagar.
Report Title : District Level Estimation of Development Indicators for the State Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2012
Researcher : Biplab Dhak
Sponsor : Indian Council of Social Science Research
Report Title : Assessing the Poverty Impact of the Social and Environmental Standards among the Workers in the Tea Plantation Sector.
Year of initiated : 2011
Researcher : N. Lalitha
Sponsor : Greenwich University, UK.
Report Title : Chronic Poverty Advisory Network
Year of initiated : 2011
Researcher : Amita Shah
Sponsor : Overseas Development Institute, London, U.K
Report Title : Interface between Education and Poverty in India: Eluding Goals and Search for New Perspectives
Year of initiated : 2009
Researchers : Amita Shah and Siddalingaswami H.
Sponsor : Chronic Poverty Research Centre - DFID, UK
Report Title : Concurrent Monitoring and Evaluation of the Integrated Dairy Development Project in Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2009
Researchers : Rudra Narayan Mishra and Harish Joshi
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat (through TRRC)
Report Title : Concurrent Monitoring and Evaluation of Project Sunshine (Phase II)
Year of initiated : 2009
Researcher : Jharna Pathak
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat (through TRRC)
Report Title : Evaluation of NSTFDC Schemes in the State of Gujarat
Year of initiated : 2009
Researchers : Tara S. Nair, Rudra Narayan Mishra and Harish Joshi
Sponsors : National Scheduled Tribes Finance and Development Corporation (NSTFDC)
Report Title : Garment Embellishment Industry in India: Home Based Workers in Value Chains.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : Jeemol Unni and Suma Scaria
Sponsor : UNIFEM
Report Title : Focus on Watershed Development.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : Amita Shah and Siddalingaswami Hanagodimath.
Sponsor : Sastri Indo-Canadian Institute, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Report Title : Focus on Inland Fisheries
Year of initiated : 2008
Researcher : Jharna Pathak
Sponsor : Sastri Indo-Canadian Institute, University of British Columbia, Canada.
Report Title : Management of National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Gujarat: Issues and Challenges.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researcher : Amita Shah
Sponsor : Lal Bahadur Shastri, Institute of Management, New Delhi.
Report Title : Evidence and Issues in Migration and Poverty in India: A Review
Year of initiated : 2008
Researcher : Amita Shah (with Animesh Kumar)
Sponsor : Chronic Poverty Research Centre-DFID, UK.
Report Title : Interface between Education and Poverty in India: Eluding Goals and Search for New Perspective.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : Amita shah and Siddhalingaswami H.
Sponsor : Chronic Poverty Research Centre-DFID, UK.
Report Title : A Study (Houselisting and Sample Survey) of Low Cost Sanitation Schemes in Twenty Urban Centers in Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : Keshab Das and Rudra Narayan Mishra.
Sponsors : Gujarat Urban Development Mission, Gandhinagar.
Report Title : Tribal Resource and Research Centre (TRRC), Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : R. Parthasarathy, Jharna Pathak , Rudra Narayan Mishra and Harish Joshi (with Sajitha O.G., IMHR, Jaipur).
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Issues of Challenges of Outcome Budgeting in Secondary and Higher Education.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researcher : Jharna Pathak.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Concurrent Monitoring and Evaluation of Project Sunshine (Phase I)
Year of initiated : 2008
Researcher : Jharna Pathak
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Eklavya Model Residential Schools in Gujarat: A Review.
Year of initiated : 2008
Researchers : Harish Joshi and Jharna Pathak.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Social Income and Economic Insecurity: Workers Study in Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : Jeemol Unni (with Guys Standing University of Bath, UK and Monash University, Australia, Renana Jhabwala, SEWA, Ahmedabad and Uma Rani, International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva).
Sponsors : SEWA, Ahmedabad and UNIFEM, New Delhi.
Report Title : Tribal Development in Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : R. Parthasarathy, Jharna Pathak, Sajitha O.G. Rudra Narayan Mishra, and Harish Joshi.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Review of Status of Tribals of Gujarat with respect to Agriculture and Irrigation.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : R. Parthasarathy, Jharna Pathak and Harish Joshi.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Impacts of System of Rice Cultivation
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : Jharna Pathak and R. Parthasarathy
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Evaluation of Wadi Project.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : Jharna Pathak, and R. Parthasarathy
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Status Paper on Health Issue in Tribal Dominated Districts of Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researcher : Sajitha O.G.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title : Evaluation of Fortified Milk Programme in Banakantha District, Gujarat.
Year of initiated : 2007
Researchers : R. Parthasarathy, Sajitha O.G. Rudra Narayan Mishra, and Harish Joshi.
Sponsor : Tribal Development Department, Government of Gujarat.
Report Title :  Institutionalising Indian System of Medicines: Challenges in Governance and Issues in Intellectual Property Rights
Year of initiated : 2006
Researchers : N. Lalitha (with Laurent Pordie, French Institute of Pondicherry)
Sponsor : French Institute of Pondicherry
Report Title : Safe Maternal Health Care in India: Can it be Made Universal?
Year of initiated : 2006
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Manoj Alagarajan
Sponsor : MacArthur Foundation, US
Report Title : Gujarat Health Accounts 2005-06
Year of initiated : 2006
Researcher : N. Lalitha
Sponsor : Government of Gujarat
Report Title : Safe Maternal Heath Care in India: Can it be Made Universal?
Year of initiated : 2005
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Manoj Alagarajan
Sponsor : MacArthur Foundation, US
Report Title :   Determinants and Consequences of Demographic Transition in Andhra Pradesh
Year of initiated : 2005
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Satyajeet Nanda (with Academy for Nursing Studies, Hyderabad)
Sponsor : Population Foundation of India (PFI), New Delhi
Report Title : Safe Maternal Health Care in India: Can it be Made Universal?
Year of initiated : 2004
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Manoj Alagarajan
Sponsor : MacArthur Foundation, US
Report Title : Determinants and Consequences of Demographic Transition in Andhra Pradesh
Year of initiated : 2004
Researchers : Leela Visaria and Satyajeet Nanda (with Academy for Nursing Studies, Hyderabad)
Sponsor : Population Foundation of India (PFI), New Delhi
Report Title : Access to Medicines: Initiatives in Policy Making and Delivery of Drugs: A Case Study of District Hospitals in Tamil Nadu
Year of initiated : 2004
Researcher : N. Lalitha
Sponsor : Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
Report Title : Chronic Poverty in India:i.    Chronic Poverty in a Forest Economic in Orissaii.    Analysis of NSSO Household Data on Chronic Poverty in Remote Areas
Year of initiated : 2003
Researcher : Amita Shah
Sponsor : DFID (through the University of Manchester, UK.)
Report Title : Chronic Poverty in India
Year of initiated : 2002
Researcher : Keshab Das
Sponsors : Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and University of Birmingham, UK
Report Title : Chronic Poverty in India
Year of initiated : 2002
Researcher : Amita Shah
Sponsors : Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi and University of Birmingham, UK
Report Title : Women in Agriculture: Declining Options, Future Possibilities
Year of initiated : 2001
Researcher : Amita Shah
Sponsor : Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India