When COVID-19 first hit India, urban slums spun into disarray in the wake of severe lockdowns. However, government authorities provided disparate logistics, food and social protect...
View PublicationCOVID-19 exposed several gaps in urban planning and policymaking. With cities largely being the loci of infection, vulnerable groups such as slum dwellers were disproportionately i...
View PublicationReliance on FRTs in India is premature. This policy brief highlights this whilst acknowledging FRTs' use cases—in aiding the police's preventive and investigative funct...
View PublicationOur document here shares our recommendations on the proposed amendments to the Department of Consumer Affairs’s Consumer Protection (E-commerce) Rules, 2021. A regulato...
View PublicationSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, significant scientific progress has been made with the development of innovative and point-of-care testing, safe and effective vaccines, a...
View PublicationIDFC Institute appreciates the initiative that the Department of Science and Technology (DST) has taken in drafting this crucial policy and putting it out for public consultation. ...
View PublicationThis case study is a supplement to the 2019 IDFC Institute report titled Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India, which focused on the type of physical infrastructure n...
View PublicationIn a post-COVID world, we see the adoption of facial recognition technologies further intensifying. Law enforcement agencies have observed immense benefits in criminal tracing and ...
View PublicationAbstract The Indian bureaucracy suffers from indecision and risk aversion, resulting in an inordinate focus on routine tasks, coordination failure, process overloa...
View PublicationPrivacy is a non-negotiable right at any given time. Yet, governments may use crises to justify a significantly lower degree of individual privacy to be maintained. However, saving...
View PublicationAbstract This paper discusses Kerala’s response to the COVID-19, particularly in the first wave of the pandemic. It addresses why the state is particularly economically and demo...
View PublicationThere has been an uptick in the use of technology in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments have had to be swift and agile with response strategies. A variety of technology ap...
View PublicationOver the course of UPA-II and Narendra Modi’s first government, Aadhaar was mandated to link with a range of government services, and such a move attracted significant opposition...
View PublicationMumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru and various other cities have been the locus of COVID-19 infection in India. Given that these cities also have some of the highest population densiti...
View PublicationTaiwan has been singularly successful in designing and implementing effective COVID-19 policy responses. As the pandemic draws on -- these are early days yet -- observing, analysin...
View PublicationIt is widely accepted that sharing of health data will reap benefits to relevant parties involved in the ecosystem. Yet, sharing of the data poses a threat to privacy of individual...
View PublicationSero-surveillance provides estimates of antibody levels against infectious diseases and is considered the gold standard for measuring population immunity due to past infection or v...
View PublicationRandomised controlled trials (RCTs) have become a popular methodological choice for policy analysis in the developing world. Through a review of literature in multiple disciplines,...
View PublicationGovernments, globally, are turning to data and technology to improve governance, speci cally service delivery, with tools such as digital healthcare sensors and the Internet of ing...
View PublicationIn this paper, we undertake a study of 28 states to establish the issues with their revenue budgets’ fiscal marksmanship. We particularly focus on the grants received from the Ce...
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