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‘I Paid A Bribe’: Using technology to fight corruption in India
‘I Paid A bribe’ (ipaidabribe.com) harnesses the collective energy of Indian citizens against corruption by enabling them to report anonymously on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequen...
- Venkatesh Kannaiah
- 06 June, 2016
- Notes from the Field
Does democracy cause growth?
Many analysts view democracy as a neutral or negative factor for growth. This column discusses new evidence showing that democracy has a robust and sizeable pro-growth effect. It finds that a country ...
- Daron Acemoglu Suresh Naidu Pascual Restrepo James Robinson
- 03 June, 2016
- Articles
What are schools worth?
Since large-scale expansions in education impact both individual behaviours and labour markets, convincing causal estimates of their overall benefits are hard to generate. Analysing the overall econom...
- Gaurav Khanna
- 01 June, 2016
- Articles
The alcoholic mammaries of the welfare State
Tamil Nadu is known to give away more freebies to voters than any other state and these are financed mainly by massive revenues from liquor sales. In this article, Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor...
- Swaminathan Aiyar
- 30 May, 2016
- Articles
The 'poverty line' - III
In the last of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, discusses how the official methodology of poverty meas...
- S. Subramanian
- 27 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The 'poverty line' - II
In the second of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, argues that there is a built-in incentive for officia...
- S. Subramanian
- 26 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The 'poverty line' - I
In the first of a three-part series on the poverty line, Prof. S. Subramanian, former National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, contends that the term should not be bandied about fr...
- S. Subramanian
- 25 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Indo-Korea trade pact: Harnessing the potential in services
India and Korea signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) in 2009, which resulted in an increase of 42% in bilateral trade between 2009-10 and 2012-13. This column examines the CEPA...
- Neetika Kaushal Nagpal Saon Ray Nisha Taneja
- 23 May, 2016
- Articles
Impact of Electronic Voting Machines on electoral frauds, democracy, and development
In an attempt to curb electoral malpractices, Electronic Voting Machines were introduced on a national scale by the Election Commission of India in the 1990s. Using data from state assembly elections ...
- Sisir Debnath
- 19 May, 2016
- Articles
Case for electric vehicles through cleaner grid supply
The Indian government recently announced its plan to make India a 100% electric vehicle nation by 2030. In this article, Mudit Chordia, a Consultant at the University of Chicago Urban Labs, discusses ...
- Mudit Chordia
- 18 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Socially disadvantaged groups and microfinance in India
The benefits of microfinance are in the details. This column takes a look at lending by commercial banks in India to self-help groups – smaller, informal community-based groups – as a new and successf...
- Jean-Marie Baland Rohini Somanathan Lore Vandewalle
- 16 May, 2016
- Perspectives
The Indian banking system: A ticking time bomb
In response to RBI’s call to accelerate the recognition of stressed assets, publicly traded banks in India added nearly Rs. 1 trillion in bad loans in the quarter ending December 2015. In this articl...
- Ashish Pandey
- 13 May, 2016
- Perspectives