Cheap to buy and easy to ignore, bidi powers a vast economy that thrives on labour violations, policy loopholes and health ...

Lack of testing accounts for the highest number of patients lost in the TB care cascade, and stigma keeps many patients from ...

Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time as their rural counterparts in ...

A fraction of people use air conditioners in India but these ACs together consume just about as much energy as all the ...

India’s Illegal Bird Markets Thrive Despite Prohibitory Laws IndiaSpend investigates bird markets in three north Indian cities: Patna, Lucknow and Delhi ...

Education CheckAt the primary level, tribal children see higher enrolment rates than the all-India average, but many do not continue to secondary and higher ...

Kawinkumar B is an MA Economics student at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, and an intern with IndiaSpend. Urban Indian women spend more time working in paid employment but they spend as much time ...

India Has Mental Health Pensions But They Rarely Reach The Affected For many persons with psychosocial disabilities across India, the disability pension was insufficient, inconsistent or nonexistent ...

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) provide large employment opportunities at lower capital cost than large industries, but this sector is plagued by low levels of registration. As per the ...

Why The Move To Organic Is Faltering In Sikkim, India’s First Fully Organic State Farmers say they don’t earn enough from farming, there is competition from cheaper non-organic produce from ...