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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Videos
International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Global supply chain disruptions: Causes and the way ahead
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for the global supply chains, with persistent effects since early 2020, and knock-on effects now gaining intensity. In this post, Sharmila Kanth...
- Sharmila Kantha
- 13 December, 2021
- Perspectives
Intellectual property rights and wage inequality
Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especially...
- Sourav Bhattacharya Pavel Chakraborty Chirantan Chatterjee
- 25 October, 2021
- Articles
Covid-19 and mental health: Fighting the “infodemic”, one phone call at a time
COVID-19 information communication strategies globally have been dominated by SMS and voice recording based campaigns. The most pervasive Indian government campaign was a pre-recorded message that pla...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Varun Chati Sadish D Saswati Mishra Anant Nyshadham Nirupama V
- 22 September, 2021
- Articles
Dealing with worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries
Worker absenteeism in labour-intensive industries causes productivity losses for firms, and reduced potential for productivity-based incentives for workers. Based on a study in Karnataka, this article...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Jean-François Gauthier Shalin Gor Saumya Joshi Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 08 September, 2021
- Articles
India’s service-led economic growth
Structural transformation that involves a shift from agriculture straight to services, is a cause of concern to many scholars as an expanding service sector might be a pale substitute to technical pro...
- Tianyu Fan Michael Peters Fabrizio Zilibotti
- 18 June, 2021
- Articles
Boosting India’s capital goods’ exports
Union budget 2021-22 has proposed a sharp 34.5% hike in capital expenditure, which is expected to boost the capital goods sector. While the sector has grown since liberalisation, its share in the glob...
- Parthapratim Pal Swathysree S S
- 10 February, 2021
- Articles
Expectations, wage hikes, and worker voice
Understanding how exit decisions of workers are affected by their ability to voice their concerns, is a central question in labour economics. Based on an experiment in 12 garment factories in Karnatak...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Smit Gade Teresa Molina Anant Nyshadham
- 11 January, 2021
- Articles
No line left behind: How firms match workers and managers
Various studies consistently affirm the importance of strong worker-manager dynamics in driving productivity. Based on analysis of worker-level productivity data, information on orders, and interviews...
- Achyuta Adhvaryu Vittorio Bassi Shalin Gor Anant Nyshadham Jorge Tamayo
- 18 September, 2020
- Articles
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...
- Maitreesh Ghatak Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami
- 14 August, 2020
- Perspectives
Unmaking ‘Make in India’
The current government has attempted to improve India’s ranking in the World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators, but with limited success. This article shows that ‘deals’ between the State and businesse...
- Sabyasachi Kar Rajesh Raj S.N. Kunal Sen
- 10 July, 2020
- Articles