22 November, 2019The need for a total overhaul of the GST regime
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council met in Goa in September 2019 to find a way to boost the weakening Indian economy. The Council recommended reductions in GST rates for certain categories of goo...
Abheek Barman 
20 November, 2019
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Has the National Rural Health Mission improved utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bihar?
Bihar is a socioeconomically backward state with a persistently poor record with respect to maternal and child health indicators. Based on data from the National Sample Surveys on healthcare, this art...
- Saswata Ghosh Zakir Husain
- 18 November, 2019
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RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
Prime Minister Modi recently announced that India would not be joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement between Southeast Asian Nations and its free-trading partners. I...
- Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
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Emerging challenges: Economic and social
To mark the second anniversary of I4I in July 2014, we invited two eminent scholars – Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Mukul Kesavan (Jamia Milia) to discuss the emerging economic and social challenges in...
- Abhijit Banerjee Mukul Kesavan Ashok Kotwal
- 06 June, 2014
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Financing development in India
I4I recently organised a panel discussion on ‘Financing Development in India’ with Prachi Mishra (Goldman Sachs), Andy Mukherjee (Bloomberg), and Ananth Narayan (SPJIMR). The discussion was modera...
- Ashok Kotwal Prachi Mishra Andy Mukherjee Ananth Narayan Pronab Sen Minouche Shafik
- 03 October, 2019
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Leading economic institutes join hands to bridge research-policy gap
The International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics and Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago collaborate to better communicate evidence-based research for informed de...
- I4I Team
- 19 July, 2019
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How India’s growth bubble fizzled out
India’s GDP growth has slowed sharply from 8% per annum last year to 5% in the second quarter this year. In this post, Ashoka Mody contends that the ongoing slowdown is not a short-term disruption; ...
- Ashoka Mody
- 22 November, 2019
- Perspectives
The need for a total overhaul of the GST regime
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council met in Goa in September 2019 to find a way to boost the weakening Indian economy. The Council recommended reductions in GST rates for certain categories of goo...
- Abheek Barman
- 20 November, 2019
- Perspectives
Has the National Rural Health Mission improved utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bihar?
Bihar is a socioeconomically backward state with a persistently poor record with respect to maternal and child health indicators. Based on data from the National Sample Surveys on healthcare, this art...
- Saswata Ghosh Zakir Husain
- 18 November, 2019
- Articles
RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
Prime Minister Modi recently announced that India would not be joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement between Southeast Asian Nations and its free-trading partners. I...
- Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
- Perspectives
Banerjee and Duflo’s journey with Pratham
This year’s economics Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked closely with education NGO Pratham in India for more than 20 years. Over time, this unique partnership of research...
- Rukmini Banerji
- 13 November, 2019
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Giving up too early on malnourished children? Catch-up growth and Midday Meals
It is widely believed that malnourishment in the first few years of childhood adversely affects cognition and adult economic outcomes. This column presents new research which shows that full recovery...
- Abhijeet Singh
- 14 April, 2014
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Evidence, policy, and politics
Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he bel...
- Jean Drèze
- 03 August, 2018
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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...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 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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Financial inclusion in India: Progress and prospects
Financial inclusion is globally considered as a critical indicator of development and well-being of society. In this post, Srinivasa Rao traces the financial inclusion journey in India so far, and dis...
- K. Srinivasa Rao
- 11 July, 2018
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Explainers
The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
Robots have long existed in human imagination and only recently in the real world. The baggage of past imagination often intrudes into our understanding of how real robots will affect our economic liv...
- Mousumi Das Siddhartha Mitra
- 25 July, 2018
Explainer: India’s payments banks
In August 2015, the RBI issued in-principle licences to 11 entities to establish payments banks in India – a unique format of banking which has not been used anywhere else in the world. Fully based ...
- Rahul Choudhury
- 30 May, 2018
Explainer: Conceptual foundations of cryptocurrencies
In recent times, cryptocurrencies have become a subject of intense deliberations among policymakers, market participants, investors, and other stakeholders. Whether cryptocurrencies will revolutionis...
- Radhika Pandey Bhavyaa Sharma
- 21 March, 2018
Symposium
Introduction to e-Symposium: The idea of a universal basic income in the Indian context
A major announcement in the Congress manifesto, in the ongoing parliamentary election, is the minimum income guarantee proposal – Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY). In this symposium, Bharat Ramaswami (Asho...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 01 May, 2019
Introduction to e-Symposium: Firms and labour productivity
Eighty per cent of India’s labour force works ‘informally’. Providing employment with decent wages and benefits to this segment requires structural transformation of the economy to more high-pr...
- Farzana Afridi
- 12 March, 2018
Introduction to e-Symposium: Women and work in India
Female labour force participation in India has been low and stagnant over the past few decades. I4I Editor Farzana Afridi is hosting an e-symposium to examine research that explores the reasons for t...
- Farzana Afridi
- 03 March, 2017
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India's farm crisis: Decades old and with deep roots
In this Perspectives piece, Prof. Himanshu argues that the crisis in Indian agriculture today is not a new one; it goes back many years. Therefore, the problems of farmers cannot be addressed by the b...
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- 12 April, 2019
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IGC Panel Discussion: Financing growth and diversification of Bihar’s agriculture
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- 05 April, 2019
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When technology disrupts politics: Lessons from India’s green revolution
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- 14 January, 2019
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Groundwater depletion in India: Social losses from costly well deepening
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How India’s growth bubble fizzled out
India’s GDP growth has slowed sharply from 8% per annum last year to 5% in the second quarter this year. In this post, Ashoka Mody contends that the ongoing slowdown is not a short-term disruption; ...
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- 22 November, 2019
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Should low-income countries open up to foreign capital? The India experiment
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Does the current economic slowdown warrant a fiscal boost?
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Has the National Rural Health Mission improved utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bihar?
Bihar is a socioeconomically backward state with a persistently poor record with respect to maternal and child health indicators. Based on data from the National Sample Surveys on healthcare, this art...
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Draft National Education Policy: Vision for out-of-school children
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Fifteen years of gender budgeting in India: A Retrospective
In this year’s Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that she will constitute a committee to evaluate 15 years of gender budgeting. It entails looking at the budget through the...
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- 29 October, 2019
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Coping with a policy shock in rural South India: Social networks as a determinant of trust
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Closing gender gaps in India: Does increasing women’s access to finance help?
- Purva Khera
- 16 August, 2019
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Inequality of opportunity among Indian women
- Akanksha Choudhary Gowtham Muthukkumaran Ashish Singh
- 05 August, 2019
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Do politicians receive special treatment in courts?
Do Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) facing pending criminal cases receive favourable treatment in the Indian legal system? This article uncovers opposite effects of winning office, depending o...
- Rubén Poblete-Cazenave
- 26 August, 2019
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Consent to nothing: Aadhaar-based payment systems in welfare
- Sakina Dhorajiwala Niklas Wagner
- 23 August, 2019
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How democratic are the states of India?
- Jos Bartman Imke Harbers Enrike van Wingerden
- 13 August, 2019
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Economic mobility in India: Estimation using ‘noisy’ data
There has been a dramatic rise in inequality in India post-liberalisation. This article finds economic mobility to be markedly low, with at least seven out of 10 poor households remaining poor or at-r...
- Hao Li Daniel L. Millimet Punarjit Roychowdhury
- 18 September, 2019
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EWS reservation in higher education: Affirmative action or vote bank politics?
- Devika Malhotra Sharma
- 11 September, 2019
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Household-level effects of affordable housing: Evidence from Mumbai
- Tanu Kumar
- 04 September, 2019
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How much do households contribute to ambient air pollution in India?
Burning solid fuels like firewood in homes for cooking, heating, and other energy services is the single largest source of air pollution exposure in India. In this post, Chowdhury, Chafe, Pillarisetti...
- Zoë Chafe Sourangsu Chowdhury Sagnik Dey Sarath Guttikunda Jos Lelieveld Ajay Pillarisetti
- 19 August, 2019
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The ‘Right to Energy’ and carbon tax: A game changer in India
- Rohit Azad Shouvik Chakraborty
- 22 April, 2019
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Gone with the wind: Crop-burning and the human costs of pollution
- Hemant Kumar Pullabhotla
- 20 March, 2019
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Lessons from the PMC Bank fiasco
In September, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had to impose restrictions on Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank (PMCB) as the latter was found to be involved in a mega loan fraud. RBI has taken steps...
- K. Srinivasa Rao
- 06 November, 2019
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Approaches to regulation of cryptocurrencies
- Radhika Pandey D. Priyadarshini Raghunath Seshadri
- 31 October, 2019
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How banking crisis is impeding India’s economy
- Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 11 October, 2019
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Financing development in India
- Ashok Kotwal Prachi Mishra Andy Mukherjee Ananth Narayan Pronab Sen Minouche Shafik
- 03 October, 2019
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Does India gain from high-skilled migration to the US?
India is the most important source of migrants globally, and the US is the main host country for its high-skilled migrants. Is the phenomenon of high-skilled emigration ‘brain drain’, or is it cre...
- Stefano Breschi Francesco Lissoni Ernest Miguelez
- 18 February, 2019
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An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
- Subhashis Banerjee Subodh V. Sharma
- 24 September, 2018
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The impact of robotisation on the world economy: A forward-looking review
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- 25 July, 2018
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Mobility and congestion in urban India
Urban transportation in developing countries is prioritised for massive investments, yet little is known about the determinants of urban mobility in these countries. This article applies a methodology...
- Prottoy A. Akbar Victor Couture Gilles Duranton Adam Storeygard
- 24 July, 2019
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RCEP trade agreement: The road not taken?
Prime Minister Modi recently announced that India would not be joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement between Southeast Asian Nations and its free-trading partners. I...
- Sarthak Agrawal Madhav Malhotra
- 15 November, 2019
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Exports, global production sharing, and job creation in India
- Garima Dhir C. Veeramani
- 09 October, 2019
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What lies behind this year's economics Nobel
In this post, Maitreesh Ghatak discusses how randomised controlled trials – the use of which was pioneered by this year’s economics Nobel Laureates, Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer – have been succe...
- Maitreesh Ghatak
- 25 October, 2019
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