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Vikas Dimble Dimble
Vikas Dimble is the Director and Head of the Isaac Centre for Public Policy (ICPP) at Ashoka University and the content editor for Ideas for India. Building on Ashoka University’s brand- ICPP aims to achieve excellence in three strands of work —in academic programs and executive education, in policymakers-led research including policy case studies and briefs, and public policy events.
Before joining Ashoka University, Vikas was Associate Director and India Lead for the DataDelta team at IDinsight. He has also been Deputy Director for the Ashoka Centre for Economic Policy (ACEP) at Ashoka University. ACEP worked on empirical macro-development questions relevant to developing countries and Vikas worked with Arvind Subramanian, the Director, to conceptualize, set up, and run ACEP. Before ACEP, Vikas was Assistant Director of Research and Strategy for the Tata Centre for Development (TCD) at the University of Chicago. He has also worked as an India Country Economist for the IGC at the London School of Economics (LSE), as a consultant to the World Bank, and as a Research Associate at J-PAL at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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What will it take for the Indian economy to break out of the lower-middle-income bracket?
In 2007, India moved from the low-income to lower-middle-income category, as per the World Bank’s classification of countries by income. With clear aspirations to graduate into the higher brackets of income, what will it take for India to make it? Speaking at the launch event of Ashoka’s University’s Isaac Centre for Public Policy (ISPP), experts including Rakesh Mohan (former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India), Anup Wadhawan (former officer of the Indian Administrative Service) and Prachi Mishra (Chief of the Systemic Issues Division, International Monetary Fund) discuss ideas for achieving faster structural transformation of the economy, strengthening State capacity, catching the bus for labour-intensive manufacturing, empowering urban local government, and consolidating public debt.
Global financial crisis and India: A look at the decade gone by
The crisis that emerged in the US subprime mortgage market this month 10 years ago, not only engulfed the country’s financial system but the entire global economy. In this post, Vikas Dimble and Nalini Gulati explore some of the key effects of the crisis on the Indian economy.
Can the microcredit model be improved?
Microcredit is frequently touted as an effective policy tool to fight global poverty. However, studies suggest that the long-term impact on recipients’ lives is limited. In this post, Mushfiq Mobarak of Yale University, and Vikas Dimble of Tata Centre for Development, argue that new research reveals microcredit can help more people by modifying and extending its model.