Public Purpose and Accountability in the Indian State
In an effort to enhance accountability within the state, Prime Minister Modi launched a new surveillance system to monitor the attendance of public employees.
The International Politics of Status
In a recent New York Times article, Pankaj Mishra painted a portrait of the modern Hindu Indian psyche in colors of “victimhood and chauvinism,” arguing that “many ambitious members of a greatly expanded and fully global Hindu middle class feel frustrated in their demand for higher status from white Westerners.” Mishra’s controversial statement is apt not just for its description of contemporary politics, but also because it captures something more ingrained and enduring in the Indian psyche.
The BJP and Coalition Politics
Prior to 2014, India witnessed seven consecutive elections (1989 to 2009) in which no single party won a majority of seats in the Lok Sabha, resulting in minority governments, including unwieldy minority coalitions, dependent on external support.
Globalized Growth in Largely Agrarian Settings: The Case of India
Anirudh Krishna is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates how poor communities and individuals in developing countries cope with the structural and personal constraints that result in poverty and powerlessness. Recent research projects have examined poverty dynamics at the household level for 35,000 households in India, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, and the U.S. examining both how people escaped poverty, and more importantly, how some came to be poor in the first place.
India on the Move: Unravelling the Black Box of Commuting
In the last couple of decades, the number of two-way commuters between rural and urban areas on a daily basis has seen an explosive growth. This includes a large number of workers engaged in menial service sector jobs who do not have a fixed place of work. One could go out on a limb and claim that migration is passé and commuting is chic, but the time has come for conversations on labor mobility to move beyond one that is migration centric to one that also includes commuting.
CASI 2014 Student Programs Symposium
CASI 2014 Summer Interns will share their experiences and reflections on living and working in India.
CASI 2014 Interns
Sophia Bernier, C'15, Bill Cao, C’17, Dani Castillo de Luna C'15, Jane Chen, C W'16, Zach Chen C W'16, Carrie Childs, V'16, Leah Davidson, W'16, Nikhil Devani, W'16, Caroline Kee, C'15, Sarah Kho, W'16, Kristi Littleton, C'15, Aardra Rajendran SEAS'16, Abhi Ramachandran SEAS'15, Mary Stachofsky, C'15, Eileen Wang, C'16, Shreya Zaveri, W'16
Designing Data Systems for Skilling India
India’s unemployment rate currently sits at 9 percent. Yet, one in three citizens with at least a bachelor’s degree is out of work. Its working age population,is projected to rise from over 750 million today to almost a billion by 2020. At the same time, agricultural employment is in decline, accounting for less than 50 percent of total employment for the first time in Indian history. These market pressures are pushing the labor force towards higher skilled occupations. Yet, even young, college-educated,Indians often lack the requisite skills to obtain these jobs.