IDEAS is organizing an exciting webinar on 'Data in Development: Evolving nature and contexts', by Dr. Kanhu Charan Pradhan from Centre for Sustainable Urban Livelihoods, National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi. Please join us tomorrow (15th March 2025, 11 am-12 pm) to learn and discuss about how discourses on data have shaped the nature of development and welfare in India.

The procedure to join the webinar can be found in the attached poster.

A short abstract of the talk and the speaker bio is presented below:

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Data in Development: Evolving nature and contexts

Dr. Kanhu Charan Pradhan, National Institute of Urban Affairs

This talk will explore the crucial role of data in India's development, emphasizing the significance of data-driven policymaking and its broader relevance to development research. Drawing insights from various projects, it will trace the evolution of data in welfare and policymaking—from traditional government efforts like the Census and National Sample Surveys to modern tools used for targeted scheme implementation, such as demographic data. Additionally, the talk will examine how alternative, non-numerical sources of information, such as Twitter and YouTube videos, can be leveraged to gain insights into specific areas of development research.

Speaker bio:

Dr. Kanhu Charan Pradhan is an economist at the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). He is a research and data lead at the Center for Sustainable Urban Livelihoods (CSUL), housed at NIUA. He has extensive expertise on working with Government datasets in India. Previously, he worked at the Centre for Policy Research, for more than 15 years. He has done seminal works in the areas of urbanization, migration, labor market, and rural-urban transition

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