20 March, 2024Effect of food prices on inflation: Is monetary policy an effective tool?
With rising inflation becoming a global concern, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran discuss some explanations for the high inflation in India. They find that inflation was driven by a domestic rise in food...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran 
19 July, 2023
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India’s debt dilemma
In the fifth article in the Ideas@IPF2023 series, Eichengreen, Gupta and Ahmed reveal how high levels of debt in India limit the resources available for other priorities. At the same time, they predic...
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Ayesha Ahmed Barry Eichengreen Poonam Gupta
- 17 July, 2023
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Budget 2024-25: A countercyclical approach to fiscal policy
Keynes propounded that fiscal policy should be countercyclical in nature – expansionary during recession and contractionary during periods of boom. In this post, Aakanksha Shrawan analyses India’s...
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Aakanksha Shrawan
- 26 March, 2024
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Can India beat this slowdown?
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has cautioned the government against seeking to generate economic growth by increasing public spending and hence, adding to the fiscal deficit. In this article, Jayan Jose ...
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Jayan Jose Thomas
- 24 February, 2016
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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
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A conversation on development - I
Parikshit Ghosh (Member of the I4I Editorial Board & Associate Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics) speaks with Kaushik Basu (Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, World Bank and fo...
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Kaushik Basu Parikshit Ghosh
- 03 February, 2016
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How foreign inflows impact Indian manufacturing firms
In the past few decades, India has emerged as one of the preferred destinations for foreign investors, with the manufacturing sector receiving a substantial proportion of total capital inflows coming...
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Vaishnavi Sharma
- 25 January, 2016
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Three cheers (not) for Jaitapur
During French President Hollande’s ongoing visit to India, India and France are expected to announce that they are going to enter into an agreement to import six nuclear reactors marketed by the Fr...
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M.V. Ramana
- 25 January, 2016
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West Bengal from an external perspective
The once prosperous, industrialised state of West Bengal is now lagging behind all-India average figures in both economic and social indicators. In this article, Ashok Lahiri, former Chief Economic A...
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Ashok Lahiri
- 04 January, 2016
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Labour rationing and forced entrepreneurship in village India
When individuals are rationed out of the labour market, this not just decreases welfare but can also create labour misallocation as rationed workers may turn to less-productive self-employment activit...
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Emily Breza Supreet Kaur Yogita Shamdasani
- 31 December, 2015
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How US interest rates influence the world economy
For the first time in nearly a decade, the US Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percentage points. In this article, Eswar Prasad, the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade and...
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Eswar Prasad
- 23 December, 2015
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Boom and Bust: Institutional causes of India's growth slowdown in 2011
The slowdown in India’s growth in 2011 is generally attributed to the global financial crisis and domestic policy paralysis. In this article, Kunal Sen argues that the high growth rates in the 2000...
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Kunal Sen
- 22 December, 2015
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Elephant vs. Dragon: Growth and development
The Indian economy expanded by 7.4% during July-September 2015, as compared to China’s growth rate of 6.9% over the same period. In this article, Mahendra Dev, Vice Chancellor of IGIDR, examines th...
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Mahendra Dev
- 11 December, 2015
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Tolerance and respect for economic progress
In his recent speech at IIT Delhi, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan contends that ideas are the key to economic growth. The two essentials to keep the ideas factory open are to foster competition in the m...
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Raghuram Rajan
- 08 December, 2015
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China's fitful economic reforms
Last week, IMF elevated China’s yuan to the status of a global reserve currency. In this article, Eswar Prasad, the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University, contends that the ...
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Eswar Prasad
- 07 December, 2015
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Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...
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- 29 February, 2016
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Land records and titles in India
Land ownership is broadly determined by access to a land title, which protects the rights of the title-holder, and impacts livelihoods, and industrial, economic, and social growth. However, land title...
- Prachee Mishra Roopal Suhag
- 20 November, 2017
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West Bengal’s economic performance relative to India over the last three decades
Against the backdrop of the ongoing elections in West Bengal, Maitreesh Ghatak examines how the state’s economic performance compares with that of the country as a whole, over the past three decades...
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- 01 May, 2021
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