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Medha Raju
Medha Raju is a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. She has previously worked as a LAMP Fellow (Legislative Assistant to Member of Parliament). She holds a master’s degree in regulatory governance from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Her master's thesis focused on the design of public-private partnership contracts in India. Her areas of interest include political economy, behavioural science, and regulatory governance.
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Covid-19: Assessing fiscal position of government in first quarter of 2020-21
In this post, Pandey and Raju analyse the trends in the revenue, expenditure, and borrowings of the Government of India in the first quarter of 2020-21, based on data released by the Controller General of Accounts. They argue that the contraction in revenues in the Covid-struck economy has constrained the government’s capacity to effectively address the operational needs arising from the pandemic, and that greater borrowing by the government may be required in the coming months to offset a rise in expenditure.
