23 April, 2018Where is the cash?
In recent weeks, reports of currency shortages have emerged from several parts of the country. In this post, Nalini Gulati contends that the cash crunch appears to be temporary and is likely to be res...
Nalini Gulati 
20 April, 2018
Huge bank losses, frauds, and economic risks
Banks have incurred humongous losses in India. The public authorities have taken corrective measures primarily in the form of strengthening laws, audits, and the enforcement processes. In this articl...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 09 March, 2018
Can India make a universal basic income work?
According to the Economic Survey 2016-17, universal basic income may prove to be a more effective antipoverty intervention than India’s largest welfare schemes. Discussing the Survey’s proposal, S...
- Saksham Khosla
- 16 April, 2018
I4I Panel Discussion: The challenge of job creation
In a recent I4I editorial, Ashok Kotwal described the challenge of job creation that is facing the Indian economy today. In December 2017, Prof. Kotwal moderated a panel discussion on the topic betwe...
- Kaushik Basu Renana Jhabvala Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen
- 30 January, 2018
Podcast: Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Karl Ove Moene
There is a view that upsurge in inequality due to globalisation is leading to rising appeal of political platforms that promote inward-looking policies. In this podcast, I4I Editor Parikshit Ghosh (As...
- Parikshit Ghosh Karl Ove Moene
- 23 April, 2018
Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Avinash Dixit
In this podcast, I4I Editor Parikshit Ghosh (Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics) speaks with Avinash Dixit (John J. F. Sherrerd '52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus, Princeton U...
- Avinash Dixit Parikshit Ghosh
- 15 January, 2018
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Public bank privatisation: No panacea for the ills of the banking sector
The recent Punjab National Bank fraud has rekindled the debate on bank privatisation, often considered a solution for the poor management in public sector banks. In this article, Sengupta and Roy cont...
- Shubho Roy Rajeswari Sengupta
- 24 April, 2018
Podcast: Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Karl Ove Moene
There is a view that upsurge in inequality due to globalisation is leading to rising appeal of political platforms that promote inward-looking policies. In this podcast, I4I Editor Parikshit Ghosh (As...
- Parikshit Ghosh Karl Ove Moene
- 23 April, 2018
Where is the cash?
In recent weeks, reports of currency shortages have emerged from several parts of the country. In this post, Nalini Gulati contends that the cash crunch appears to be temporary and is likely to be res...
- Nalini Gulati
- 20 April, 2018
India’s R&D expenditure: Composition matters
While gross expenditure on R&D in India has been on the rise in recent years, it is dominated by public investment. In this post, Sanjib Pohit contends that the current system of allocating public fun...
- Sanjib Pohit
- 18 April, 2018
Can India make a universal basic income work?
According to the Economic Survey 2016-17, universal basic income may prove to be a more effective antipoverty intervention than India’s largest welfare schemes. Discussing the Survey’s proposal, S...
- Saksham Khosla
- 16 April, 2018
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Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze
I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time...
- Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
- 28 March, 2018
Can India make a universal basic income work?
According to the Economic Survey 2016-17, universal basic income may prove to be a more effective antipoverty intervention than India’s largest welfare schemes. Discussing the Survey’s proposal, S...
- Saksham Khosla
- 16 April, 2018
Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
Debates surrounding abortion invoke both religion and politics. This column examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected,...
- Sonia Bhalotra Irma Clots-Figueras Lakshmi Iyer
- 09 April, 2018
King Cash is back: Has informality increased?
Demonetisation and the introduction of goods and services tax were expected to accelerate the shift to formality in the economy. In this article, Renu Kohli contends that while currency in circulation...
- Renu Kohli
- 06 April, 2018
India’s R&D expenditure: Composition matters
While gross expenditure on R&D in India has been on the rise in recent years, it is dominated by public investment. In this post, Sanjib Pohit contends that the current system of allocating public fun...
- Sanjib Pohit
- 18 April, 2018
Explainers
Explainer: Conceptual foundations of cryptocurrencies
In recent times, cryptocurrencies have become a subject of intense deliberations among policymakers, market participants, investors, and other stakeholders. Whether cryptocurrencies will revolutionis
- Radhika Pandey Bhavyaa Sharma
- 21 March, 2018
GST Explainer: Introduction
Seventeen years after its framework was formed, India’s biggest tax reform – the goods and services tax – was rolled out on 1 July 2017. Some consider the ‘one nation, one tax’ system to be
- Ashok Kotwal
- 16 October, 2017
Symposium
Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr
- Farzana Afridi
- 12 March, 2018
Introduction to e-Symposium: Women and work in India
Female labour force participation in India has been low and stagnant over the past few decades. I4I Editor Farzana Afridi is hosting an e-symposium to examine research that explores the reasons for t
- Farzana Afridi
- 03 March, 2017
On demonetisation
On the evening of 8 November, the Prime Minister announced on national television that Rs. 1,000 and 500 notes are no longer legal tender, and must be exchanged at the banks for newly issued currency.
- Parikshit Ghosh
- 23 December, 2016
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Contract farming and the role of government
To integrate farmers with agro-industries, the Ministry of Agriculture has released a draft Model Contract Farming Act, which seeks to create a regulatory and policy framework for contract farming. I...
- Smriti Mudgal Sharma
- 26 February, 2018
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King Cash is back: Has informality increased?
Demonetisation and the introduction of goods and services tax were expected to accelerate the shift to formality in the economy. In this article, Renu Kohli contends that while currency in circulation...
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- 06 April, 2018
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Strengthening primary healthcare: From promises to reality
In February 2017, Government of India had announced its plans to upgrade some of the existing primary healthcare facilities into Health and Wellness Centres (HWCs). However, the pace of implementatio...
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- 27 March, 2018
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Religion and abortion: The role of politician identity
Debates surrounding abortion invoke both religion and politics. This column examines whether the religious identity of legislators influences abortion rates in the districts in which they are elected,...
- Sonia Bhalotra Irma Clots-Figueras Lakshmi Iyer
- 09 April, 2018
Empowering India's daughters
- Nalini Gulati
- 08 March, 2018
Union Budget 2018: What's in it for women?
- Nalini Gulati
- 02 February, 2018
Give women credit
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- 24 November, 2017
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Podcast: Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Karl Ove Moene
There is a view that upsurge in inequality due to globalisation is leading to rising appeal of political platforms that promote inward-looking policies. In this podcast, I4I Editor Parikshit Ghosh (As...
- Parikshit Ghosh Karl Ove Moene
- 23 April, 2018
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Can India make a universal basic income work?
According to the Economic Survey 2016-17, universal basic income may prove to be a more effective antipoverty intervention than India’s largest welfare schemes. Discussing the Survey’s proposal, S...
- Saksham Khosla
- 16 April, 2018
Aadhaar that doesn’t exclude
- Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami
- 11 April, 2018
Parikshit Ghosh speaks with Avinash Dixit
- Avinash Dixit Parikshit Ghosh
- 15 January, 2018
Aadhaar, biometrics, and the PDS in Jharkhand
- Nazar Khalid
- 10 January, 2018
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Temperature and human capital in India
A large proportion of the population in India has agrarian livelihoods that remain climate-exposed. The number of hot days per year in the country are expected to double by the end of this century. T...
- Teevrat Garg Maulik Jagnani Vis Taraz
- 26 March, 2018
Clearing the air: The effects of transparency on plant pollution emissions
- Michael Greenstone Rohini Pande Nicholas Ryan Anant Sudarshan
- 31 December, 2017
Adaptation to persistent drought and groundwater depletion: Evidence from Karnataka
- Ram Fishman V.S. Prakash K. V. Raju
- 28 December, 2017
The simple economics of clean air
- Ridhima Gupta E. Somanathan
- 01 December, 2017
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Public bank privatisation: No panacea for the ills of the banking sector
The recent Punjab National Bank fraud has rekindled the debate on bank privatisation, often considered a solution for the poor management in public sector banks. In this article, Sengupta and Roy cont...
- Shubho Roy Rajeswari Sengupta
- 24 April, 2018
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India’s R&D expenditure: Composition matters
While gross expenditure on R&D in India has been on the rise in recent years, it is dominated by public investment. In this post, Sanjib Pohit contends that the current system of allocating public fun...
- Sanjib Pohit
- 18 April, 2018
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Congestion pricing to solve traffic jams? Not so fast!
The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi recently said that the city is likely to become the first in India to have congestion charges in certain stretches. This column reports results from an experimental p...
- Gabriel Kreindler
- 19 March, 2018
Real estate cross-subsidisation for infrastructure financing: A precarious solution for urban development?
- Meenakshi Sinha
- 08 January, 2018
Smart congestion pricing: Testing travel incentives to reduce congestion in Bangalore
- Esther Duflo Gabriel Kreindler Benjamin Olken
- 30 November, 2017
India's slum leaders - II
- Adam Auerbach Tariq Thachil
- 21 November, 2017
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Foreign market access and competition in India's textile and clothing industries: Impacts on firms and workers
This project aims to estimate the effects of foreign market access and export competition on plants and workers in the textiles and clothing industries in India.
- Krisztina Kis-Katos Janneke Pieters Shruti Sharma
- 31 March, 2017
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Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze
I4I Editor-in-Chief Ashok Kotwal speaks with Jean Drèze, visiting Professor at Ranchi University and an ‘economist-activist’ who has been working in India at the grassroots level for a long time...
- Jean Drèze Ashok Kotwal
- 28 March, 2018
Economics among the road scholars
- Jean Drèze
- 22 December, 2017
