An initiative on Chinese and Indian comparative developmental experiences.

China-India Comparative Health Resource Centre

Rama V. Baru, Adjunct Fellow, ICS and Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, JNU

Madhurima Nundy, Associate Fellow, ICS

The objective of the health resource centre is to build a repository on relevant issues on health systems in China; build a network with scholars, institutes and centres conducting research on health system in China; and conduct research on selected domains from a comparative perspective with India. Read more

Indian and Chinese Ethnic Minority Policies

Tshering Chonzom, Associate Fellow, ICS

When India and China became republics in 1947 and 1949 respectively, both adopted a very modernist conception of sovereign statehood, which conceptualised sovereignty in strictly territorial terms. Expectedly, this engendered ideological and political troubles for the newly formed units. The socio-economic dynamics, however, are embedded in the political complexity of the two problems and therefore, any meaningful engagement demands complex analysis. Read more

States Responses to Social Welfare in China and India: A Comparative Study of the Workers in Small and Medium Enterprises

PK Anand, Research Associate, ICS

Since embarked on market reforms, the state in China and India has evolved different strategies in addressing the question of social welfare. The proposed project seeks to examine the Chinese and Indian state vis-à-vis its responses and approaches towards social welfare in institutional terms, in the context of the changing economic visions of the governments that had direct implications for the ‘permanent employment, job security and other kind of welfare that was available to the industrial working class. Read more