Nileena Suresh
@nileena_suresh
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Engineer. Analyst. Cynic. Melon Lord. Big Psyduck Energy.
Joined May 2014
Wrote this piece exploring the curious case of "custom tailoring" -- its role in India's manufacturing workforce, particularly women, and its peculiar categorisation as a manufacturing service https://t.co/kPUrLg8IyD
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One economic activity - tailoring - has come to play a significant role in Indian manufacturing, transforming women's employment in the sector in particular. We look at the growth of this activity,...
🧵Over the last few months, we've been looking deeply into data on India's manufacturing workforce. The closer we looked, especially at data on women workers, the more we noticed one area of work in particular - 'custom tailoring'.
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Announcing upcoming sessions at the GCPP Academic Conference: Aaditeshwar Seth, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, will speak on “Leveraging Digital Public Infrastructure for Community Action.” He will draw on his research and practice to
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Dairy is a key source of nutrients, and plays a particularly important role in children's and women's health. Most Indians are regular consumers of dairy products (milk or curd). Half of adult Indians consume dairy products every day, while three out of four have them at least
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As part of our deep-dive on manufacturing in India, @nileena_suresh's excellent work on what women in manufacturing do.
More than one-third of India's manufacturing sector workers today–or 23 million–are women. While the overall share of manufacturing workers in India has remained largely unchanged since the 1970s, the proportion of women among manufacturing workers has risen over time. Most
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New on @dataforin: an exhaustive look at women in India's manufacturing sector by @nileena_suresh. Here's my favourite insight from it https://t.co/BHGPpFKG3S
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So excited for Zohran Mamdani’s victory 👏👏👏 how are you celebrating this historic win? 🥳 Can we Mumbaikars come and celebrate this win by holding BMC elections asap 🥺👉🏻👈🏻
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Yesterday we published an ambitious piece of research by @nandlalsumit and @pramit_b that compares estimates of India's manufacturing sector (jobs and wages) from household surveys on one hand and industry-side surveys on the other
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Capturing the true situation of manufacturing employment in India is a vital part of understanding its economy. We examine the implications of using different data sources to track manufacturing.
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One of the most important ways that countries interact with each other in the global economy is through trade - imports into the country and exports out of the country. India exports goods and services worth $780 billion, while its imports were worth $860 billion, as of 2022-23.
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Looking for a postdoc position? We have multiple positions open through ANRF-NPDF, but also otherwise! Do get in touch! https://t.co/e3g3ijRDPn Our research:
🚨 Applications for the ANRF National Post Doctoral Fellowship (N-PDF) are now open! Are you a passionate young researcher looking to explore digital health innovation? We are happy to mentor applicants keen on this space. #DigitalHealth #PostDoc #NPDF (1/3)
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Road accidents are a leading cause of mortality in India. 36 out of every 1,000 deaths in India in 2019 were attributed to road accidents. Among young men (aged 15-29) in particular, road accidents are the single largest cause of mortality, responsible for one in four deaths.
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More people travel from as far as Kasara, Dahanu, Panvel to south Mumbai using local trains on any given day than they ever will on the coastal road or Atal Setu. New railway lines within #Mumbai before bullet train please #MumbaiLocalAccident
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On Monday morning, a major accident occurred on the Central Railway line when several passengers fell onto the tracks and died
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'Never saw this kind of rainfall in May' is a sentence I heard repeatedly this month. And rightly so, bec India has seen almost double its normal May rainfall. In fact, Central India has seen 5X and South India 2.5X rain this May #premonsoon w @Mithileshdhar @IndiaSpend
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Shorter winters, hotter years: Rising temps disrupt crops, spread dengue to Himalayan foothills, and strain maternal & neonatal health systems. Climate change is rewriting India’s seasons. https://t.co/oUXB9wVEzK Tanvi Deshpande reports. Via @IndiaSpend
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Summer-like temperatures are setting in as early as February.
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Across the world and over time, women choose to have fewer children when incomes, access to education and healthcare improve. India has seen the same trend. The share of mothers with three or more children dropped from over 60% in 1993 to 40% by 2021. However, while Indian
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Access to mobile phones and the internet in India have expanded rapidly over the last decade. However, there is a gap in the technical skills needed to use these technologies effectively to communicate, learn and work. India is a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable
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@nileena_suresh 2. This exhaustive piece of research by @nileena_suresh and @nandlalsumit that examines the growth standards used to define child stunting in India, the research on their development and use, and what alternatives could look like
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Global growth standards used to define the levels of child stunting in India have been contentious. While a substantial body of research shows that the standards are not inaccurate, more context-sp...
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Historically, when countries moved away from an agrarian economy, economic growth first came from industry, followed by a much later growth in services. This was true for the early industrialisers of Europe and North America, as well as Japan and some other East Asian economies.
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Meat, poultry, seafood and eggs are widely consumed in India. Approximately 80% of Indians aged 15-49 consumed some form of animal-sourced protein (excluding dairy) as of 2021, a rise from 74% in 2006. The National Family Health Survey classifies different types of animal
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India's female labour force participation rate (LFPR) - the share of women who are either working or seeking work - is low by global standards. Historically, a majority of adult Indian women reported that they were attending to household duties and were not available for paid
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Very important story on the loss of forest cover in the North eastern states and the data around it
🚨Story time: Remember the State of Forests Report which showed that India has increased its forest cover? Sure, but the deforestation lies in the details. India's Northeastern region has lost forests roughly the size of Goa in the last 10 years. And we are only getting started +
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