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What the quest for a $5 trillion economy entails Hindustan Times, 6 July 2019 By Partha Mukhopadhyay	Strange GST slabs as they affect Development and Defence Fauji Reporter, 6 July 2019 By Bharat Karnad
Budget 2019 Is Ambitious on Healthcare. But More Can Be Done The Wire, 6 July 2019 By Avani Kapur and Ritwik Shukla	Farm to health to education, Modi govt’s Budget has no clear vision for India’s social sector ThePrint, 6 July 2019 By Avani Kapur
The options before India The Tribune, 5 July 2019 By Shyam Saran	Power to water: If India wants to fulfil economic goals, it needs better infrastructure ThePrint, 5 July 2019 By Partha Mukhopadhyay
Union Budget: A lost opportunity Hindustan Times, 5 July 2019 By Yamini Aiyar	Budget 2019 Fails to Give Education the Radical Boost it Needs The Wire, 5 July 2019 By Kiran Bhatty
Troubled waters India Today Magazine, 5 July 2019 By Shyam Saran	The poor must be included as change agents in the roadmap for clean energy The Indian Express, 4 July 2019 By Ashwini K Swain, Anna Agarwal, and Parth Bhatia

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Promoting Compliance in An Evolving Climate Regime

Edited by

Jutta Brunnée, Meinhard Doelle, and Lavanya Rajamani

Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice

Edited by

Richard Lord, Silke Goldberg, Lavanya Rajamani, and Jutta Brunnée

Decentralization, Local Governance, And Social Wellbeing In India: Do Local Governments Matter?

By

Rani Mullen

Handbook of Climate Change and India: Development, Politics and Governance

Edited by

Navroz K Dubash

Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments

Edited by

Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

Water Law for the Twenty-first Century: National and International Aspects of Water Law Reforms in India

Edited by

Philippe Cullet, Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri, Roopa Madhav, and Usha Ramnathan

Human Rights and Climate Change: A Review of the International Legal Dimensions

By

Siobhan McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow, and Lavanya Rajamani

India's Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: Evidence from the Early Experience of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana

By

Robert Palacios, Jishnu Das, and Changqing Sun

Re-visioning Indian Cities: The Urban Renewal Mission

By

K C Sivaramakrishnan

Implementation of International Environmental Law

By

S Maljean-Dubois and Lavanya Rajamani

Beyond Binaries: Border States and Foreign Policy in India and China

By

Nimmi Kurian

India China Relations: The Border Issue and Beyond

By

Mohan Guruswamy and Zorawar Daulet Singh

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The Numbers Game - How Well Has It Served the Cause of Education? Economic and Political Weekly, 14 April 2018 By Kiran Bhatty	An Unresolved Legal Question About Forest Rights Human Rights Law Journal, 9 April 2018 By Kanchi Kohli
Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change Nature Climate Change, 3 April 2018 By Felix Creutzig, Joyashree Roy, William F. Lamb, Inês M. L. Azevedo, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Holger Dalkmann, Oreane Y. Edelenbosch, Frank W. Geels, Arnulf Grubler, Cameron Hepburn, Edgar G. Hertwich, Radhika Khosla, Linus Mattauch, Jan C. Minx, Anjali Ramakrishnan, Narasimha D. Rao, Julia K. Steinberger, Massimo Tavoni, and Diana Ürge-Vorsatz & Elke U. Weber	The legal character and operational relevance of the Paris Agreement's temperature goal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2 April 2018 By Lavanya Rajamani and Jacob Werksman
India and China Can Coexist in the Indo–Pacific Economic and Political Weekly, 31 March 2018 By Zorawar Daulet Singh	Multi-criteria decision analysis in policy-making for climate mitigation and development Climate and Development, 5 March 2018 By Brett Cohen, Hernán Blanco, Navroz K Dubash, Srihari Dukkipati, Radhika Khosla, Serban Scrieciu, Theodor Stewart, and Marta Torres-Gunfaus
The literature landscape on 1.5 °C climate change and cities Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 20 February 2018 By William F Lamb, Max W Callaghan, Felix Creutzig, Radhika Khosla, and Jan C Minx	Policy as Law: Lessons from Sanitation Interventions in Rural India Stanford Journal of International Law, 19 February 2018 By Philippe Cullet
India’s approach to international law in the climate change regime Indian Journal of International Law, 29 January 2018 By Lavanya Rajamani	Russia’s Comeback in the Middle East Economic and Political Weekly, 30 December 2017 By Zorawar Daulet Singh

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Tibet and the Himalayan Borderlands: Thinking Sub-regionally about Sustainable Development

By

Nimmi Kurian

BCIM Sustainability Dialogue(s): A Network Approach to Capacity Building

By

Nimmi Kurian

Energizing India-Japan Cooperation on Clean Energy and Climate Change

By

Shyam Saran and Radhika Khosla

“Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: India’s Constitution and its Supreme Court”, in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India

By

Ananth Padmanabhan

Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change

By

Navroz K Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani

Delimiting Boundaries of the Third Tier of Democracy: A Note

By

Bhanu Joshi

A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court – The Evolving Case Law Related to Water

By

Philippe Cullet

Janani Suraksha Yojana, Institutional Deliveries and Maternal Mortality: What does the Evidence say?

By

Ambrish Dongre

The Human Right to Water in Rural India – Promises and Challenges

By

Philippe Cullet

International Legal Regimes for Subsurface Activities

By

Catherine Redgwell and Lavanya Rajamani

Evolution of National Policies for Basic Services, Affordable Housing and Livelihoods for the Urban Poor

By

Arun Kumar Mishra and Shubhagato Dasgupta

The Tension between Property Rights and Social and Economic Rights: A Case Study of India

By

Namita Wahi

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Study on Household Containment Systems in Selected States in India 30 December 2018	Closing the Enforcement Gap: Community-led Groundtruthing of Environmental Violations in Mormugao, Goa 30 December 2018 By CPR-Namati Environmental Justice Program
Building Regulations For Faecal Sludge Management: Review of Building Regulations From Indian States 4 December 2018 By Arkaja Singh	India: Using open school data to improve transparency and accountability 26 October 2018 By Mridusmita Bordoloi, Varun Kapoor
Ethnography of Sanitation in Small Towns: A Study of Angul and Dhenkanal, Odisha 22 September 2018 By Ranjita Mohanty, Anju Dwivedi	Training Manual on Non-Sewered Urban Sanitation 18 September 2018 By Shubhagato Dasgupta, Anju Dwivedi, Ambarish Karunanithi, Swati Dhiman, Deepti Raj, Neha Agarwal
Note on Faecal Sludge Management in Rural India: Graded Solution, legal and Regulatory implications and Possible Administrative Structure 30 August 2018 By Arkaja Singh, Anindita Mukherjee	An Overview of the Smart Cities Mission in India 24 August 2018 By Ashwathy Anand, Ajai Sreevatsan, Persis Taraporevala
Unpacking the Processes of Open Defecation Free Status in Udaipur: A case study of Udaipur, Rajasthan 16 August 2018 By Devashish Deshpande, Avani Kapur	Migration to Brick Kilns in India: An Appraisal 30 July 2018 By Shamindra Nath Roy, Eesha Kunduri

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Education reforms, bureaucracy and the puzzles of implementation: A case study from Bihar International Growth Centre, 10 November 2015 By Yamini Aiyar, Ambrish Dongre, and Vincy Davis	How Will Bihar Shake Out? 6 November 2015 By Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu Joshi, and Ashish Ranjan
What Do Bihar’s Voters Want? 30 October 2015 By Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu Joshi, and Ashish Ranjan	Elaborating in the INDC context 20 September 2015 By Neha B Joseph
Taxes: Price of Civilization or Tribute to Leviathan? 2 September 2015 By Lant Pritchett and Yamini Aiyar	Exclusion, Informality, and Predation in the Cities of Delhi 25 August 2015 By Cities of Delhi Team
Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study The Lancet, 11 August 2015 By Jishnu Das, Ada Kwan, Benjamin Daniels, Srinath Satyanarayana, Ramnath Subbaraman, Sofi Bergkvist, Ranendra K Das, Veena Das, and Madhukar Pai	Transforming Electricity Governance in India: Has India's Power Sector Regulation Enabled Consumers' Power? World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7275, The World Bank, 2015, 30 May 2015 By Ashish Khanna, Daljit Singh, Ashwini K Swain, and Mudit Narain
The Institutionalisation of Climate Policy in India: Designing a Development-Focused, Co-Benefits Based Approach 20 May 2015 By Navroz K Dubash and Neha B Joseph	The Inscription of Technology in Life 15 May 2015 By Rajshree Chandra