In the media
The CDES' member researchers regularly share their research insights in the media.
Below are some of their contributions and other articles about their work.
Chess education in children reduces their risk aversion
Modernising horticulture inspires legislative change in Pakistan
An ACIAR-funded project to assist the modernisation of Pakistan’s horticultural sector has resulted in legislative change in the country’s breadbasket state of Punjab.
Goods and services tax: Estimating optimal rates
Ranjan Ray, Amita Majumder and Sattwik Santra
Ideas for India (I4I), 9 July 2021
Policy reforms that are changing Pakistan’s horticultural sector
An international project led by Monash Business School investigating Pakistan’s horticulture markets has already brought about policy changes at the highest level.
Pollution from coal-based power units and anaemic status of children and women
This article evaluates the impact of pollution caused by coal-based power units.
Dean's award for excellence in research awarded to the CDES director
Professor Asad Islam receives the Dean's award for excellence in research.
New appointment of the Editorial Board of the Indian Economic Review
Associate Professor Gaurav Datt (CDES Deputy Director) has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Indian Economic Review, Journal of Delhi School of Economics, published by Springer.
Professor Asad Islam's interview with the (GLO) on the challenges of the COVID-19
The developed world was affected first, but the forthcoming consequences for the developing countries may be much worse.
Using intermediaries to deliver credit
A study in India suggests that private traders have a potentially valuable role to play as intermediaries for agricultural development interventions. With Pushkar Maitra, VoxDev, 2 March 2020
The necessity for delinking democracy from majoritarianism
When institutions weaken, so does the distinction between constitutional and representative democracy. By Ranjan Ray, The Wire, 25 February 2020
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and randomised controlled trials
Professor Asad Islam writes in Bangladesh's The Financial Express about the new approach to obtaining reliable answers in fighting global poverty
Monash Business School researchers named ASSA Fellows
Professors Zenou and Magee are among 37 of Australia’s leading economists, lawyers, psychologists and philosophers elected as Fellows of the ASSA, one of Australia's four learned academies.
Non-Financial Incentives for Volunteer Tutors
A project by Asad Islam, M. Abdul Malek, Sakiba Tasneem, and Liang Choon Wang featured on the Behavioral Evidence Hub
The Impact of Referrals to Improve Targeting for Agricultural Training in Bangladesh
A research by Marcel Fafchamps, Asad Islam, Mohammad Abdul Malek, and Debayan Pakrashi featured on J-PAL
Non-price energy conservation and household energy consumption: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
A research by Asad Islam, Ahsanuzzaman and Liang Choon Wang featured on IGC
Do chess playing children perform better in school?
Islam et al’s research paper on “The Effects of Chess Instruction on Academic and Non-Cognitive Outcomes” featured on Chessnews
23 October 2019
As inequality rises, so does the relevance of A.B. Atkinson's work
Atkinson’s work, for one, provides a very convenient framework for assessing the GST tax rates in India. By Ranjan Ray, The Wire, 2 Oct 2019
The challenge of India’s growing inequality
Ranjan Ray and Gaurav Datt
East Asia Forum, 27 July 2019
The unrealistic optimism of Indians on prospects of upward social mobility
Ranjan Ray discusses the issue of inequality of opportunities associated with the lack of social mobility, The Wire, 14 Jun 2019
How information matters for adopting a new technology in Bangladesh
A research by Asad Islam, Philip Ushchev, Yves Zenou, and Xin Zhang featured on VOX, 6 Jun 2019
Recognising the Challenge of Income Inequality in India
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 23 Apr 2019
The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on U.S. Prices and Welfare.
Review by Paul Krugman, on the work of CDES Advisory Board member Mary Amiti, (Federal Reserve Bank, NY)
New York Times, 3 Mar 2019
After #MeToo, India Needs to Think Seriously About Its ‘Missing Women’
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 1 Dec 2018
Child Health, Fertility, and Sex Ratio: India vs Bangladesh
Ranjan Ray, Salma Ahmed and Aparajita Dasgupta
Ideas for India, 22 Nov 2018
Purdah disempowers Pakistan’s women and weakens its economy
Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Sisira Jayasuriya, CDES Director
East Asia Forum, 30 Aug 2018
The accident of birth
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 27 Jul 2018
On research in development economics
Interview with CDES Advisory Board member Dilip Mookherjee
Ideas for India, 6 Jul 2018
Educated Girl of Today is Empowered Woman of Tomorrow: Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer program!!
Blog post by an IIM, Ahmedabad PhD student on the work of Asad Islam
6 Jul 2018
IPS highlights urgent policy reforms needed to transform Sri Lanka’s post-conflict growth
Features comments by the CDES' Director, Sisira Jayasuriya
Daily Financial Times, 5 Jul 2018
GST: A 'good and simple' tax?
Gaurav Datt
Ideas for India, 18 Jun 2018
Inequality, Not Poverty, is Behind the Global Rise of Identity Politics
Ranjan Ray
The Wire, 18 May 2018
Basic health before basic income
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 16 May 2018
The Worrying Rise of Covert Trade Protectionism
Giovanni Di Lieto
Brink, 28 Feb 2018
In the economic power struggle for Asia, Trump and Xi Jinping are switching policies
Giovanni Di Lieto
The Conversation, 18 Jan 2018
Food security: Trying new rice cultivation method
Asad Islam
The Financial Express, 15 Nov 2017
The birthplaces of African leaders receive an awful lot of aid
Notes the work of Paul Raschky and co-researchers
The Economist, 7 Oct 2017
New goals
Ranjan Ray
The Telegraph, 24 Aug 2017
Among the Good Believers
Notes the work of Pushkar Maitra and co-researchers
Open, 28 Jul 2017
More International Cooperation Needed To Regain Control Over Labour Migration
Giovanni Di Lieto
Australian Institute of International Affairs, 3 Apr 2017
Parallel economy responsible for rising national inequality
Notes the work of Ranjan Ray and co-researcher
Business Daily, 12 Feb 2017
The Trillion Internet Observations Showing How Global Sleep Patterns Are Changing
Notes the work of Simon Angus, Paul Raschky and co-researcher
MIT Technology Review, 31 Jan 2017
Ensuring quality education
Notes the work of Asad Islam
The Financial Express, 23 Jan 2017
Challenges South Asia faces
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
The Financial Express, 16 Jan 2017
Be prepared for global impending changes
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
Daily Financial Times, 13 Jan 2017
Sri Lanka, a test bed for economic experimentation, says Amunugama
Conference on Human Capital, Food Security and Economic Development
Daily Mirror, 12 Jan 2017
Poverty reduction in India: Revisiting past debates with 60 years of data
Gaurav Datt, Rinku Murgai and Martin Ravallion
Ideas for India, 10 Oct 2016
Chinese aid is helping African economies, but not in the places that need it most
B. Parks, R. Hodler, A. Dreher, P. Raschky, M. Tierney and A.Fuchs
The Washington Post, 7 Oct 2016
Whither female disadvantage? An analysis of private school enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma
Ideas for India, 7 Oct 2016
The Afternoon Adda - Portliness Amidst Poverty: Evidence from India
A discussion with Pushkar Maitra
Australia India Institute Podcast, Aug 2016
The growing problem of excess weight in India
Pushkar Maitra and Nidhiya Menon
Ideas for India, 27 Jun 2016
India, the driver of growth for Bharat
Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai
The Indian Express, 13 Jun 2016
Misplaced charity
Notes the work of Paul Raschky and co-researchers
The Economist, 11 Jun 2016
Quality of governance and welfare outcomes
Salma Ahmed and Ranjan Ray
Ideas for India, 27 Apr 2016