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14 Mar, 2019
India's WhatsApp election: political parties risk undermining democracy with technology
India’s 2019 national elections are widely anticipated to be the “WhatsApp elections”. Against a backdrop of rapidly improving...
24 Jan, 2019
A warning from India for European liberals on how to manage relations with Muslim minorities
Especially since the refugee crisis, Europe has been grappling with populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities. Yet, despite decades of migration, native Europeans have limited experience and...
12 Nov, 2018
The Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS) – one year on
October marked one year into the Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS), which brings together research from Young Lives (Ethiopia, Peru and the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana)...
06 Nov, 2018
Horizontal inequality: exploring persistence and change
A considerable body of recent research suggests that inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications. ‘Economists have long recognised that there is an association between inequality...
22 Jun, 2018
No longer children: on growing up and the changing world of work
Over the past 15 years, Young Lives has followed the lives of two cohorts of children through childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood. The information gathered in the last round of data collection...
05 Mar, 2018
The varying burden of stunting: understanding physical growth during childhood and adolescence in Young Lives data
In 2016, more than 20% of the world’s under-5 year olds (155 million children overall) were stunted, or too short compared to healthy peers of...
08 Feb, 2018
A reflection on ‘child work’ and its measurement over the life cycle
While many would agree that addressing the issue of child work is of high importance, the consensus on how to appropriately define children in work is not always clear. Already difficult to outline for the...
04 Sep, 2017
Private schools in India: more learning, more inequality?
Within education research, a great deal of attention has been paid to the effectiveness of different types of school within developing countries over the past decade or so, and in particular to the rise of...
11 May, 2017
One, two, three star! Pre-school attendance and numeracy skills development
The potential of quality early childhood care and education to transform childrens’ lives is now widely recognised in research, in policy and in service delivery. Most significantly at a global level, the...
28 Mar, 2017
Bridging the gaps: diverse learning outcomes in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam
Educational attainment is as much about where a child goes to school as her home advantage. School systems vary widely in effectiveness – yet there is more nuance in the picture when we examine the overlap...
17 Jan, 2017
The new superpowers in the global land grab and how they operate
Much of the global south – broadly comprising the continents of Asia, Africa, and Latin America – was shaped by colonialism. The so-called “great game” and the scrambles between Britain, Portugal, Belgium,...
15 Jan, 2017
Learning tolerance from religion
Do you believe in democracy and gender equality? Even if you and I do, not everyone everywhere does.
02 Dec, 2016
Trump and Modi: birds of the same feather, but with different world views
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th US president illustrates the global ascendance of the political right. Comparisons with Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose rise predates Trump’s by two years,...
08 Nov, 2016
Why Indians aren't impressed with Theresa May's business offer
Theresa May’s three-day tour of India marks the start of her attempt to secure post-Brexit business with non-EU countries. Yet the message beginning to emanate from the UK government is: Indians, we want...
27 Oct, 2016
India's slow-brewing political storm is steadily gathering strength
When Narendra Modi was elected as head of India’s BJP government in May 2014, he was expected to usher in a period of stability and development. But midway into his term, he and his party are lurching from...
30 Oct, 2015
What can the private sector offer Indian education?
Few things in education policy in developing countries are more contentious than what the role of the private sector should be.
21 Apr, 2015
Between nation-state and ummah’s appeal: the contradictions of Islamism in contemporary India and Bangladesh
Generally, Islamists believe in the Universalist concept of Ummah (Islamic community of believers), a supranational or transnational union. The Islamists’ call for unity of the Ummah is based on the belief...