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Nudge Fudge: A Critique of Using Nudge Theory in Policymaking in India

Over the past few weeks, you may have stumbled upon the words ‘nudge’ and ‘behavioural economics’ more often than you had in the past few years. There is a serious attempt to mainstream nudge in policy design.
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Nudge Fudge: Why Behavioural Economics?

Last month, at the induction programme for around 120 MBA students at IIT Bombay, I was conducting a session on plagiarism. During the session, I announced: “Plagiarism is like a plague.”
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Four Things We Need To Urgently Fix In India’s Education System

The Draft New Education Policy 2018 (DNEP) is a grandiose document that covers a student’s entire life span from pre-schooling to the PhD degree in about 500 pages.
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Workshop on Environmental Policy, Scope and Challenges for Local Regulation (9-11 Sept)

Organised under the aegis of the Indo-German partnership Program in Higher Education, jointly supported by the University Grants Commission and German Academic Exchange Service (DDAD)
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Looking Beyond Privacy: The Importance of Economic Rights to Our Data

Digital data and the pervasive intelligence that it provides about people, and about artefactual and natural phenomenon, is the very basis of a digital economy.
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A Paradigm Shift in Policy Thinking for Women

Here’s the thing about cities. They’ve been built by men for men. As Sanjukta Basu has written, “women are allowed to venture out in public space, but not really own it.”
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Research: Study on Media Influences in India

We are glad to announce the release of the first of a three-part study on media influences in India authored by CPS's visiting fellow, Vibodh Parthasarathi, and project associate Simran Agarwal.
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Sustainable Agriculture Policy Workshop Event Proceedings

The Sustainable Development Policy Study Unit of the Centre for Policy Studies conducted a half day workshop on Sustainable Agriculture on 6th April, 2019.
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A Struggle For The Right To The City: The Case Of Mahul

‘Toxic hell’, ‘human dumping ground’, ‘gas chamber’, ‘hellhole’ are some of the names given to Mahul village in Chembur, situated on the eastern coast of Mumbai, which is...
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Electoral Bonds: ensuring transparency in the electoral process?

On April 12, following petitions filed by the Election Commission (EC) and the Association for Democratic Reforms challenging the use of electoral bonds, the Supreme Court directed...
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