Tag Search: “growth”
A ten-point programme for economic recovery
The Indian economy has been experiencing a slowdown in growth of GDP in general and investment in particular, with the Covid-19 crisis being the last (big) straw. In this post, Gurbachan Singh present...
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Gurbachan Singh
20 October, 2020
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What would make India’s growth sustainable?
Much of the discussion on the economic slowdown in India in recent years – as well as on the government’s measures to tackle the present economic crisis due to the Covid-19 lockdown – is focused on th...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
Ashok Kotwal
Bharat Ramaswami
14 August, 2020
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The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity
The persistent gap between female and male labour force participation comes at a significant economic cost. This article argues that because women and men complement each other in the production proce...
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Christine Lagarde
Jonathan D. Ostry
04 January, 2019
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Are women politicians good for economic growth?
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. This article investiga...
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Sonia Bhalotra
05 December, 2018
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Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s contribution to endogenous growth theory
What motivates people like Steve Jobs to spend time, money, and effort in developing new ideas despite the implicit hazard that ideas can easily be copied later? In this post, Mausumi Das contends tha...
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Mausumi Das
24 October, 2018
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Two views on fighting world poverty
In the previous article, Lant Pritchett critiqued Chris Blattman’s proposal to compare interventions that provide chickens rather than cash, and the view that the answer is the best investment we cou...
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Chris Blattman
05 May, 2017
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On India's latest GDP numbers
India’s latest GDP data shows that the economy grew at 7% in the previous quarter, despite demonetisation. In this article, Abhijit Banerjee discusses why the new numbers are likely to be an overestim...
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Abhijit Banerjee
25 March, 2017
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Getting kinky with chickens
In the context of Bill Gates’ commitment to chickens as a high-impact poverty intervention, Chris Blattman recently proposed a study to compare interventions that provide chicken rather than cash, an...
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Lant Pritchett
04 March, 2017
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Income inequality in a globalising world
Since the turn of the century, income inequality has risen to be among the most prominent policy issues of our time. This column looks at inequality trends in recent decades. While relative global in...
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Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
Laurence Roope
Finn Tarp
17 February, 2017
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Book review: 'India’s long road' by Vijay Joshi
In this article, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Professor of Economics at Ashoka University, reviews Vijay Joshi’s book, ‘India’s long road: The search for prosperity’.
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
21 December, 2016
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GDP conundrum: A synoptic view
R Nagaraj, Professor of Economics at IGIDR, summarises the key points of controversy around the methodology and implications of the new GDP series.
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R. Nagaraj
20 November, 2016
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GDP conundrum: Some areas of concern around growth overestimation in Indian manufacturing
Based on the new GDP series, large upward revisions in manufacturing growth rates were made – from 1.1% to 6.2% in 2012-13, and from -0.7% to 5.29% in 2013 – 14 that were not reflective of the actual ...
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Amey Sapre
18 November, 2016
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