They show that voters who are less satisfied with health care provision misattribute responsibility to local government - offering insight into how political incumbents at higher levels may be shielded from the articulation of grievances sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12/12

She finds that KMUT funds, while small, support female independence, empowerment, and bargaining capacity within the household sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 10/

@surbhikesar.bsky.social and @rosaabraham.bsky.social analyse high frequency panel data on transitions in India’s labour market. Rather than trends to formalisation, they find the main transitions are between different forms of informal work. sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 8/

Kamini Gupta and Humaira Chowdhury examine female labour force participation in Kashmir - women weavers overcome barriers to paid work outside-the-home by creating workspaces ‘in-between’ the home-outside binary
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Soumya Mishra turns to migrant capital. Rural-urban migration is typically central to structural transformation but firms' preference in India for cheaper out-of-state migrant labour produces local rentier economies and reinforces inequality sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/

Charlotte Goodburn looks at the forms of rural-urban transition taking place around SEZs. She argues that transitions tend to be to informal menial work, rural wage labour, or a reliance on one-time compensation packages for land acquisition sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 4/

R Nagaraj explores India's 'premature deindustrialisation' and need for a new industrial policy: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 3/

A new special issue of World Development has just landed on the Future of Work and Welfare in India’s halting Structural Transition; co-edited by Sunil Mitra Kumar, @louisetillin.bsky.social and me, with a superb set of contributors 1/12 (copied from @louisetillin.bsky.social via X)