Balwant Singh Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 5804763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Balwant Singh Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Balwant Singh |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, Delhi, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4678-212X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Assessing Climate-Induced Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Mountain Communities in South and Central Asia
This paper examines the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of mountain communities in South and Central Asia, with specific reference to the Himalayas and the Central Asian highlands. Using a comparative framework, the study combines the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI), LVI-IPCC, and the Livelihood Equity/Endowment Index (LEI) to measure multidimensional vulnerability. A mixed-methods approach combining household surveys and qualitative fie…
Understanding Women’s Work in India, 1983–2024
India’s female labour force participation has fallen sharply over the long term but rose sharply since 2018, with women driving most of the recent labour force and employment growth, especially in rural areas. This recovery is concentrated in self-employment and unpaid family work, largely in low-paid, informal agricultural and own-account activities. Women remain crowded into low-skill, low-wage jobs, face large gender wage gaps, and are underre…
Predicting Inequality of Opportunity and Poverty in India Using Machine Learning
This open-access book combines traditional economic methods with newer machine learning techniques such as regression trees and random forests to analyse data and provide an in-depth analysis of inequality of opportunity and poverty in India. Using data from national surveys and unique sources like night-time satellite images and location data of points of interest, it explores different aspects of inequality and poverty. The book adopts a unique…
Paid and Unpaid Care Work
This article explores the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid care work in India, highlighting persistent gender disparities. Women bear a disproportionate share of unpaid care work—spending over ten times more hours than men—yet this critical labour remains unaccounted for in national labour statistics and economic output measures like gross domestic product (GDP). Beyond the challenges of measuring unpaid care work, the article examines the siz…
Integrating Multi-Source Satellite Imagery and Socio-Economic Household Data for Wealth-Based Poverty Assessment of India
Technology and the Future of Work
This book examines how the progress of digital technology is transforming the world of work, skill demand, labour market institutions, and regulations in countries like India. It studies the challenges, opportunities, and current and future contributions of digital technologies. The volume poses salient questions regarding the ICT sector, I4.0 technologies, the gig economy, remote work, and the regulatory environment, and interrogates the policy …
Migration and Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has posed unprecedented livelihood challenges for migrants across the globe. In India too, the vulnerability of migrants working away from their homes, at a different location, has come to light—in the face of the pandemic, many were forced to return to their places of origin, and migrants from Uttarakhand residing in Delhi were no exception. This article is an attempt to understand the disruptions in the lives and livelihoods…
Rethinking Education and Livelihoods in India
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed a need for rethinking approaches to education and livelihoods. Education in its present dispensation does not provide equitable access to children from marginalized segments of the population. It also suffers from deficits in the areas of social and emotional skills, over-emphasis on the three Rs, language used as a medium of instruction, and excessive competition for scoring marks, among others. There is very low…
Employment and Livelihoods among Tribal in India
The present article attempts to explore one of the most pertinent issues of livelihood among tribals in India. In this context, the following two key issues have been examined: (a) whether tribal people are still engaged primarily in agriculture or forestry related activities for their livelihood or they have moved to non-farm and industrial activities over the years and (b) whether the government affirmative action like reservation policy has he…
Women’s Employment and Digital Technology
The article explores women’s employment and the future of work due to the changing nature of jobs as a result of the onslaught of new technologies. Adoption of new digital technologies, industry 4.0 technologies and the increasing influence of platform or gig economy has had intense effects on the ‘future of work’, causing dramatic changes. Further, COVID-19 has severely impacted the economy, especially women, reflected in the consistent fall in …
Inter-industry Linkages of ICT Sector in India
The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has a strategic importance in India, given it is export-intensive in nature and has network externalities characteristics. Thus, it is critical to understand whether such externalities or spillover of ICT affects other industries of the economy in order to make informed policy decisions. This paper attempts to understand inter-industry linkage of the ICT sector. Input–output transaction t…
A Brief Social Profile of the Poor in India
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A Brief Social Profile of the Poor in India
Inter-industry Linkages of ICT Sector in India
The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has a strategic importance in India, given it is export-intensive in nature and has network externalities characteristics. Thus, it is critical to understand whether such externalities or spillover of ICT affects other industries of the economy in order to make informed policy decisions. This paper attempts to understand inter-industry linkage of the ICT sector. Input–output transaction t…
Employment and Livelihoods among Tribal in India
The present article attempts to explore one of the most pertinent issues of livelihood among tribals in India. In this context, the following two key issues have been examined: (a) whether tribal people are still engaged primarily in agriculture or forestry related activities for their livelihood or they have moved to non-farm and industrial activities over the years and (b) whether the government affirmative action like reservation policy has he…
Women’s Employment and Digital Technology
The article explores women’s employment and the future of work due to the changing nature of jobs as a result of the onslaught of new technologies. Adoption of new digital technologies, industry 4.0 technologies and the increasing influence of platform or gig economy has had intense effects on the ‘future of work’, causing dramatic changes. Further, COVID-19 has severely impacted the economy, especially women, reflected in the consistent fall in …
Migration and Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has posed unprecedented livelihood challenges for migrants across the globe. In India too, the vulnerability of migrants working away from their homes, at a different location, has come to light—in the face of the pandemic, many were forced to return to their places of origin, and migrants from Uttarakhand residing in Delhi were no exception. This article is an attempt to understand the disruptions in the lives and livelihoods…
Rethinking Education and Livelihoods in India
The COVID-19 crisis has revealed a need for rethinking approaches to education and livelihoods. Education in its present dispensation does not provide equitable access to children from marginalized segments of the population. It also suffers from deficits in the areas of social and emotional skills, over-emphasis on the three Rs, language used as a medium of instruction, and excessive competition for scoring marks, among others. There is very low…
Technology and the Future of Work
This book examines how the progress of digital technology is transforming the world of work, skill demand, labour market institutions, and regulations in countries like India. It studies the challenges, opportunities, and current and future contributions of digital technologies. The volume poses salient questions regarding the ICT sector, I4.0 technologies, the gig economy, remote work, and the regulatory environment, and interrogates the policy …
Predicting Inequality of Opportunity and Poverty in India Using Machine Learning
This open-access book combines traditional economic methods with newer machine learning techniques such as regression trees and random forests to analyse data and provide an in-depth analysis of inequality of opportunity and poverty in India. Using data from national surveys and unique sources like night-time satellite images and location data of points of interest, it explores different aspects of inequality and poverty. The book adopts a unique…
Paid and Unpaid Care Work
This article explores the dynamics of women’s paid and unpaid care work in India, highlighting persistent gender disparities. Women bear a disproportionate share of unpaid care work—spending over ten times more hours than men—yet this critical labour remains unaccounted for in national labour statistics and economic output measures like gross domestic product (GDP). Beyond the challenges of measuring unpaid care work, the article examines the siz…
Integrating Multi-Source Satellite Imagery and Socio-Economic Household Data for Wealth-Based Poverty Assessment of India
Assessing Climate-Induced Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Mountain Communities in South and Central Asia
This paper examines the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of mountain communities in South and Central Asia, with specific reference to the Himalayas and the Central Asian highlands. Using a comparative framework, the study combines the Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI), LVI-IPCC, and the Livelihood Equity/Endowment Index (LEI) to measure multidimensional vulnerability. A mixed-methods approach combining household surveys and qualitative fie…
Understanding Women’s Work in India, 1983–2024
India’s female labour force participation has fallen sharply over the long term but rose sharply since 2018, with women driving most of the recent labour force and employment growth, especially in rural areas. This recovery is concentrated in self-employment and unpaid family work, largely in low-paid, informal agricultural and own-account activities. Women remain crowded into low-skill, low-wage jobs, face large gender wage gaps, and are underre…
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