March 18, 2018
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Rohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore in Business Standard: Skill India can retain women in workforce
Soledad Artiz-Prillaman, Rohini Pande, and Charity Troyer Moore examine the effectiveness of Skill India in maintaining women in the workforce.
by Soledad Artiz-Prillaman, Rohini Pande, Charity Troyer Moore
India’s 2018 Economic Survey posits that India not only has millions of missing women, but that it also has millions of “unwanted” women — 21 million to be precise. A popular policy solution is financial incentives: bribe parents to have daughters, educate them and keep them alive till they attain adulthood.