Tag Search: “public finance”
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Nirvikar Singh
- 04 March, 2015
- Perspectives
Three concerns about AAP's promise
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has come to power in Delhi with a historic mandate. In this article, V Ramani, Partner at Access Advisory and former bureaucrat, flags three key concerns around their approa...
- V. Ramani
- 18 February, 2015
- Perspectives
Public spending on health coverage: Are we raising the right questions?
The National Health Assurance Mission – India’s first move towards Universal Health Coverage – is expected to be launched soon. In this context, this column analyses the extent, distribution and qual...
- Samik Chowdhury Indrani Gupta
- 13 February, 2015
- Articles
How much does India spend on elementary education?
There has been a significant policy focus on expanding elementary education in India in recent years. Yet, estimates of public and private expenditure on elementary education are not available. This ...
- Ambrish Dongre Avani Kapur
- 02 February, 2015
- Articles
Taxing Tobacco
The steep increase in excise taxes on cigarettes in this year’s Union Budget is a welcome move. However, this column argues that unless more commonly consumed bidis are also taxed heavily, the public ...
- Rijo M. John
- 09 December, 2014
- Articles
Do location-based incentives promote industrialisation?
In a bid to industrialise the relatively under-industrialised states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the government implemented a tax incentive and capital subsidy scheme in the two states in 20...
- Ritam Chaurey
- 23 September, 2014
- Articles
Increasing tax compliance through social recognition
To enhance government revenues, it is important to tackle the menace of tax evasion. This column discusses an experiment that tests whether sharing a firm’s tax compliance status with neighbouring fi...
- Mushfiq Mobarak
- 15 September, 2014
- Articles
Goods and Services Tax in India: Challenges and prospects
The Finance Ministry recently announced that the Goods and Services Tax will soon be a reality. In this article, M. Govinda Rao – member of the 14th Finance Commission – discusses the challenges and ...
- M. Govinda Rao
- 25 August, 2014
- Perspectives
Modi's first Budget for India: Disappointing but retrievable
In this article, Arvind Subramanian contends that while Modi’s first Budget was good on vision, it fell short in terms of fiscal adjustment, budgetary transparency and credibility, and specificity an...
- Arvind Subramanian
- 15 July, 2014
- Perspectives
The Goods and Services Tax: Light at the end of the tunnel?
As the Goods and Services Tax is inching towards implementation, a major overhaul of the Indian tax system has also been in progress. This article discusses three key strengths of the ongoing process...
- Nirvikar Singh
- 18 June, 2014
- Perspectives