India

The IGC India Central programme was launched with a conference in Delhi in April 2010 that brought together senior government officials and legislators, academics and NGO representatives to flesh out a research agenda. The conference also identified a number of avenues for promoting continued engagement among academics and the policy community. Following extensive consultations with government officials, the Country Leadership Team has identified three priority areas for research projects, namely, Human Development – Health and Education, Urbanisation and Infrastructure, and Macroeconomics and Financial Sector Policies.

A total of 18 country projects are being funded under the current cycle. Ongoing projects analyse a wide range of topics - water saving infrastructure in agriculture, impact of female leadership on the quality of public goods, macroeconomic churning and distributional takeoff in India, clusters in Indian manufacturing, urban air quality in India, Foreign Institutional Investment in India and financial vulnerability, public health insurance in India, state ownership and systemic risk, seasonal effects of water quality on maternal and infant health in India, market towns and the dynamics of India’s rural and urban transformations, public versus private college education in developing countries, information provision and the quality of education in rural India, and the impact of improved regulatory enforcement on industrial pollution.

The India Central office in New Delhi is hosted by the Indian Statistical Institute. The address of the India Central office is:

India Central Programme
International Growth Centre (IGC)
Indian Statistical Institute
Delhi Centre 7
Shahid Jeet Singh Sansanwal Marg
Qutab Institutional Area
New Delhi 110 016
India