September 30, 2022

Acting Head of the British Deputy High Commission in Bengaluru, Hon. Mr. Andrew Fleming visited CPPR on 30th September 2022

Honourable  Mr Andrew Fleming, Acting Head of the British Deputy High Commission in Bengaluru visited the Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR) in Kochi on 30th September 2022 for an interactive session with the CPPR team. The interaction was attended […]
September 28, 2022

Video | Vikasarth 2022 | Session 2 | Emigration, Consumption Boom and the Service Economy of Kerala

Vikasarth 2022 | Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala | Session 2: Emigration, Consumption Boom and the Service Economy with Professor K.P. Kannan and Dr. A.A. Erumban, moderated by Dr. Sumeetha Mokkil Maruthur. […]
September 16, 2022

CPPR Webinar: Women in Factories – A Legal Perspective

Discussion on #Womeninfactories #thelegalperspective held on 23rd August 2022 at 5:00 PM IST. Speaker 1: Dr Neethi P, Senior Consultant – Academics & Research, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), Bangalore. Speaker 2: Adv Ramola Nayanpally, Associate Lawyer, Menon & […]
September 14, 2022

Women in Factories : A Legal Perspective

The webinar on topic “Women in Factories: A Legal Perspective” was hosted live on 23rd August 2022 (Tuesday) at 5:00 PM. It was structured on initiating discussion on the declining women’s participation in factory employment, the legal perspective of the […]
September 12, 2022

White Paper on Regulatory Regimes for Novel Tobacco and Nicotine Products

The White Paper on Regulatory Regimes for Novel Tobacco and Nicotine Products was prepared by Civitas Consultancies Pvt Ltd with the Centre for Public Policy Research as the knowledge partner. The objectives of the white paper are the following –
September 12, 2022

Looking Beyond Roe Vs. Wade

by Kalyani Balagopal The recent overturning of the landmark ‘Roe Vs Wade’ judgement raises a conundrum on the future of assisted reproduction in the country, particularly the creation of multiple embryos in In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). Moreover, the impact of the […]
September 9, 2022

Ep 34 India, Sustainability and the G20 | #PolicyBeyondPolitics

In this Episode 34 of #PolicyBeyondPolitics podcast of the Centre for Public Policy Research, we discuss the topic “India, Sustainability and the G20”. Sharon Susan Koshy, Associate Researcher at CPPR talks to Dr. Dhanasree Jayaram and Mr. Govinda Agarwal on the […]
September 5, 2022

Future Prospects of India-Africa Energy Ties

by Latika Adlakha The West was left aghast when India decided to abstain from picking a side during the Russia – Ukraine war. Owing to the drop in Russian oil prices during the war, India ramped up its imports of […]
August 31, 2022

CPPR-CEEW Workshop on Creating Policy Pathways with the Fourth Estate

Centre for Public Policy Research (CPPR), Kochi, in collaboration with the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), New Delhi, organised a half-day workshop in Kochi, Kerala on 13th July 2022 from 9:15 am to 1:30 pm. The theme of […]
August 26, 2022

Ep 33 Visible Women, Invisible Equality – Part 2 | #PolicyBeyondPolitics

This is Part 2 of #PolicyBeyondPolitics podcast on Visible Women, Invisible Equality. In this episode, Soumya Singh from CPPR is in conversation with Ms Mitali Nikore on the social and cultural barriers faced by women in getting employed in the manufacturing sector, especially in factories.  […]
August 22, 2022

Ep 32 Visible Women Invisible Equality – Part 1 | #PolicyBeyondPolitics

In this episode of #PolicyBeyondPolitics, we look at Visible Women, Invisible Equality, with Ms April Suzanna Varkey, Associate Researcher at CPPR who will be in conversation with Mr Sreyan Chatterjee exploring the economic and legal challenges faced by women to get employed in […]
August 9, 2022

Tracking India’s Railway Diplomacy

by Gowri Dixit Indian Railways has grown from a colonial hand-me-down to a means of displaying India’s soft power. With what started as a humanitarian gesture in the mid-1980s by supplying and building railway lines in Iraq, India’s Railway Diplomacy […]
July 22, 2022

Evolving Landscape of Regulatory Overlaps in Ed-tech

by Kalyani Balagopal and Nissy Solomon The last two years have shown us that education can transcend from its traditionally slow-moving structure to a dynamic hybrid system. If there’s anything the pandemic has been able to teach us, it’s that […]
July 22, 2022

Post: CEO. Qualification: Coding. IT parks erring with recruitment?

What should be the qualification for the CEO of Technopark Thiruvananthapuram or Infopark Kochi, the two leading state-run IT parks? The Kerala government thinks the new CEO must be a programmer with a minimum five years’ experience in an IT/electronics […]
July 10, 2022

Are we adding fuel to fire? A Case Study of Green Tax on Vehicles in Kerala

With the underlying principle of “polluter pays”, green tax was introduced in 2021 by the Government of India as an attempt to reduce the number of older vehicles on the road, thereby pushing people towards buying newer, less polluting vehicles. […]