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Satadru Sikdar

National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
satadru.sikdar@nipfp.org.in

Satadru Sikdar is with National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, since 2006. Prior to this, he was associated with Centre for budget and Governance Accountability, New Delhi. His major area of research is public policies and provisioning for social services, and public finance management at different levels of government. He has been associated with several research studies in NIPFP, including preparation of Medium-Term Fiscal Policy for different states; effectiveness and utilisation of funds for selected schemes, property taxation and urban poverty alleviation among others.

Posts by Satadru Sikdar

Subsidies, merit goods, and fiscal space - II

In Part I of this two-part series, the authors presented their estimates of total budget subsidies, and their merit and non-merit components. In this part, they discuss the relationship between subsid...

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Subsidies, merit goods, and fiscal space - I

Mundle and Sikdar argue that rationalisation of the prevailing large volume of non-merit subsidies should constitute a major component of deep fiscal reforms in India. Doing so could free up the fisca...

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Budget subsidies of the central government and 14 major Indian states: 1987-88 and 2011-12

In this article, Mundle and Sikdar of NIPFP, present their estimates of the flow of subsidies through the budgets of the central government and 14 major Indian states in 1987-88 and 2011-12. The estim...

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Governance performance of Indian states: 2001-02 and 2011-12

Defining governance as service delivery, this column develops a measure of the quality of governance – also adjusting for the impact of the level of development - and provides a ranking of major Ind...

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