Tag Search: “public finance”
The alcoholic mammaries of the welfare State
Tamil Nadu is known to give away more freebies to voters than any other state and these are financed mainly by massive revenues from liquor sales. In this article, Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor...
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Swaminathan Aiyar
30 May, 2016
- Articles
The first two years of Modi government
In this article, Pranab Bardhan, Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, provides his perspective on the performance of the Modi government in ...
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Pranab Bardhan
11 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Recapitalising public sector banks by disinvesting in RBI: Right and wrong
The Economic Survey 2015-16 put forth the argument that the Government of India could reduce its capital in the RBI from its current large level and use it to increase its capital in public sector ban...
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Gurbachan Singh
09 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Can Governments Increase Revenues By Lowering Taxes? A Study of Competing Policies To Reduce Tax Evasion During House Purchase in India
In the specific context of India, this project studies which of the two tools – the stamp duty or the guidance value – leads to higher truthful reporting of property prices. Using a hedonic model deve...
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Venkatesh Panchapagesan
Doddaswamy Ravishankar
Madalasa Venkataraman
30 April, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Union Budget 2016: Will it support India's economic transformation?
In this year’s Budget speech, the Finance Minister articulated the government’s agenda to ‘Transform India’ through a set of economic reforms framed in terms of ‘nine pillars’ - agriculture, rural dev...
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Nirvikar Singh
08 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2016: A UPA-III Budget
In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, contends that the Modi government presented a reasonably good United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-III Budget ...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
04 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Fiscal deficit and growth slowdown
Ahead of the Union Budget, several policymakers and economists in India have advocated increasing public spending to spur economic growth. In this article, Gurbachan Singh argues that even if India is...
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Gurbachan Singh
17 February, 2016
- Perspectives
Charting a course for the Indian economy
Karthik Muralidharan (Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego) speaks with Arvind Subramanian (Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India) on a broad set of issues rang...
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Karthik Muralidharan
Arvind Subramanian
05 August, 2015
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14th Finance Commission: A trust-based approach towards local governments
The 14th Finance Commission has been hailed as ‘path-breaking’ for recommending larger fund allocations to state governments and giving them more autonomy in spending these funds. In this article, Me...
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Meera Mehta
Dinesh Mehta
27 April, 2015
- Perspectives
Getting centre-state relations right for health in India
The 14th Finance Commission has recommended devolving a greater share of revenues to states in order to give them more control over spending. In this article, Amanda Glassman and Anit Mukherjee exami...
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Amanda Glassman
Anit Mukherjee
01 April, 2015
- Perspectives
How serious is the government about Swachh Bharat Mission?
The recently announced Union budget 2015-16 has reduced the central government allocation for Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the government. In this article, Sangita Vya...
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Sangita Vyas
20 March, 2015
- Perspectives
The 2015-16 Union budget and India's growth
The 2015-16 Union budget – the first full-year budget of the new government – was presented last week. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Cr...
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Nirvikar Singh
04 March, 2015
- Perspectives