Fostering Policy Dialogue

  • Disaster Management in India

    India is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, losing about two percent of the GDP on an average to disasters. This publication by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and supported by UNDP highlights policies and programmes undertaken by the Government of India to mitigate disaster risk, and areas of action to make the country disaster resilient in the future.

  • Gendering Human Development Indices: Recasting the Gender Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure for India

    The report ranks states and union territories in India in gender development and empowerment through calculation of Gender Development Index and Gender Empowerment Measure to reveal gender-based disparities that can be used by policymakers and analysts.

  • HIV Sensitive Social Protection: A Four State Utilisation Study

    This report has analysed the efforts, opportunities and challenges experienced by PLHIV in the utilization of schemes pertaining to food, transportation, pensions, housing, education and employment generation in the states of Gujarat, Orissa, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu.

  • India: Urban Poverty Report 2009

    The report analyses the impact of globalization, development strategies, urbanization trends, migration, changing economic structures, and the pattern of infrastructure investment - on the urban poor.

  • Inequality- Adjusted Human Development Index for India’s States

    Amidst growing concerns over persistent inequality, the paper computes for the first time ever, an Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) for states in India. Three dimensions of the Human Development Index- income, education and health are adjusted for inequalities across the states.