Browsing by Author "Padhi, Balakrushna"

Analyzing Poverty and Inequality Dynamics across North-Eastern States of India

Padhi, Balakrushna (IARIW, 2017)

This study intends to explore the poverty inequality dynamics across North Eastern States (NES) of India during recent decade. Based on NSSO’s Consumer Expenditure Survey Rounds an analysis has been carried out for two ...

Assessment of living condition of urban slum dwellers in India in the New Millennium

Padhi, Balakrushna (Taylor & Francis, 2021-02)

This study analyzes the changes in access to basic services and maps the inter-regional differences in the slums over a period of 5 years in India by using the 2012 NSSO Slum Survey. This study uses the Multidimensional ...

Collapse in Wage/Salary Income Growth in India, 2011-12 to 2017-18

Padhi, Balakrushna (Institute for Human Development, 2020)

A comparison of the growth rate of wages and salaries in India over two time periods (2004-05 to 2011-12 and 2011-12 to 2017-18 shows that wage growth virtually collapsed in the second period. Surprisingly, this collapse ...

Comparable estimates of out-of-pocket payment on hospitalisation and outpatient services in India, 2004-18

Padhi, Balakrushna (Elsevier, 2022-10)

Comparable estimates of household health spending and out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on health care in India are a daunting task. Often these estimates are provided for specific services such as maternal care, type of disease, ...

Concerns around the NDHM

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2020)

In August 2020, the Government of India announced the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) for ensuring health services for all. The NDHM highlights that a “Health ID will be given to every Indian. This health account ...

COVID-19 and the Challenges of Virtual Mode of Education in India–University Practice Connect

Padhi, Balakrushna (Azim Premji University, 2020)

The COVID-19 outbreak that led to the closure of schools has had an unprecedented effect on children’s education and wellbeing. It is important to note that interrupting education services can have serious, long-term ...

Employment and economic growth dynamics in Odisha, India

Padhi, Balakrushna (Wiley, 2020-05)

As the current phenomenon of “jobless growth” has gripped the Indian labor market, the subnational literature on how states have fared on employment generation in the post-liberalization period has been sparse. We examine ...

Evidence-Based Suggestions to Improve UGC JRF-NET Examination

Padhi, Balakrushna (SSRN, 2020-04)

To increase the transparency and efficiency of the exam, the UGC has brought out substantial changes in the National Eligibility Test (NET) examination in the recent past. However, concerns have been raised with respect ...

Evolving Inequalities

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2021-05)

The World Social Report 2020 reiterates the cautionary message of 2005 regarding rising inequalities being the deterrent in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 10 emphasising on reducing inequalities ...

Examining calorie undernourishment in India: Is it due to choice or inadequacy?

Padhi, Balakrushna (Sage, 2020-10)

Calorie undernourishment is often associated with poverty but India presents a unique scene of decline in money-metric poverty and rise in calorie deprivation. Existing literature has varied explanation towards this effect. ...

Future of Work in Retail and Construction in India

Padhi, Balakrushna (SEWA, 2019)

The World of Work has changed dramatically in the last three decades in response to the needs of capital, impact of globalization and technical changes. These factors have led to a dramatic global, industrial, organizational ...

Gender-Based Wage Discrimination in Indian Urban Labour Market: An Assessment

Padhi, Balakrushna (Springer, 2019-08)

This study attempts at verifying the pattern of the wage gap between gender in India’s urban labour market using NSS 50th (1993–1994), 61st (2004–2005), and 68th (2011–2012) Employment and Unemployment Surveys. The wage ...

his study examines whether the economic growth in Odisha is pro-poor since the 1990s by applying, Pro-poor Growth Index (PGI), Poverty Equivalent Growth (PEG), Growth Incidence Curve (GIC) methods and using the NSSO 1993-1994, 2004-2005 and 2011-2012 Consumer Expenditure Survey. The change in poverty has been decomposed into growth in income (MPCE) and redistribution to look into the pro-poorness effect of growth. The results show that the slower rise in MPCE and faster increase in inequality, which offset the poverty reduction in the 1st period, causes a slow reduction in poverty. The faster reduction in inequality in the 2nd period with an increase in real MPCE has resulted in more rapid reduction in poverty in the state. Throughout the analysis, the growth effect of poverty reduction outweighs the inequality effect, causing a reduction in poverty in Odisha. The PGI, PEG and GIC show that the 2nd period in Odisha is pro-poor.

Padhi, Balakrushna (Elsevier, 2022-10)

Comparable estimates of household health spending and out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on health care in India are a daunting task. Often these estimates are provided for specific services such as maternal care, type of disease, ...

Internal Migration in India and the Impact of Uneven Regional Development and Demographic Transition across States: A Study for Evidence based Policy Recommendations

Padhi, Balakrushna (Institute for Human Development, 2020)

Internal migration in India is closely linked to the pace and pattern of demographic changes and differentiated development of rural and urban areas, which affect the supply and demand for labour in different regions. ...

Introspecting Human Development

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2021-01)

Since the 1990s the two distinct aspects observed in the development discourse are human development on the one hand and inclusive development on the other. This has led to the advent of both the initial Millennium Development ...

Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?

Padhi, Balakrushna (Springer, 2015)

The most popular measure of poverty, ie the head count ratio is undoubtedly a simple measure with inadequacies of comparison. It also suffers from the mismatched contradiction between the count of the poor and their share ...

Is the Growth Pro-Poor in Odisha Since 1990’s?

Padhi, Balakrushna (GIPE, 2022)

This study examines whether the economic growth in Odisha is pro-poor since the 1990s by applying, Pro-poor Growth Index (PGI), Poverty Equivalent Growth (PEG), Growth Incidence Curve (GIC) methods and using the NSSO ...

Labour Force and Employment Growth in India Evidence from the EUS (2011–12) and PLFS (I and II)

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2021-11)

Employment is one of the key building blocks of Indian development policy (Papola and Sahu 2012). Driving growth in the labour and workforce is a critical challenge for Indian policymakers and is a hotly contested issue ...

Need for Equalising Endowments A Lesson from Two Centuries of Global Inequality (1820–2020)

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2021-12)

Rising income inequality is a major concern at the global level because it can have a mordant effect on social and political cohesion. Given the importance of the topic, Goal 10 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs ...

Of Ageing in India

Padhi, Balakrushna (Economic Political Weekly, 2021-02)

The recently released Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) (2017–18) study report is a landmark in generating a sustained information base for policymaking in the wake of the rising elderly population owing to the ...

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