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Production Responses and Tax Evasion with Limited State Capacity - Evidence from Major Reform in India
This project explores: what is the effect of switching from a retail sales tax to a VAT in a country with limited tax capacity and a large informal economy? The project explores this question through...
- David Agrawal Laura Zimmermann
- 31 October, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Barriers in accessing applications under RTE quota in Gujarat
In the school year 2017-18, Gujarat shifted from a paper-based system at the district level to an online system at the state level, for applications under the Right to Education Act. In this note, res...
- Ambrish Dongre Ishu Gupta Ankur Sarin Karan Singhal Nisha Pankaj Vernekar
- 30 October, 2017
- Notes from the Field
Doing Business in India: Myths and realities
Ahead of the global release of the 2018 edition of the World Bank Doing Business rankings, this column compares data from firm-level surveys conducted by the Bank and the IDFC Institute-NITI Aayog wi...
- Mathew Lillehaugen Milan Vaishnav
- 25 October, 2017
- Articles
The power of enforcement: State capacity and child marriage in India
In an attempt to deter child marriage, a recent Supreme Court verdict has criminalised sexual relations between a man and minor wife. Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married be...
- Tanushree Goyal Sam Van Noort
- 24 October, 2017
- Articles
Political reservation and the quality of governance
Existing evidence suggests that while political reservation for traditionally marginalised groups tilts governance outcomes in favour of those groups, there are non-discernable or negative effects on ...
- Siwan Anderson Patrick Francois
- 23 October, 2017
- Articles
GST Explainer: Value Added Tax 2.0
Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley) and Shekhar Mittal (UCLA) outline some features of the GST that attempt to address the challenges of implementing a VAT system in India
- Aprajit Mahajan Shekhar Mittal
- 17 October, 2017
- Perspectives
GST Explainer: A legal scholar’s view
Arvind Datar, Senior Advocate and reputable legal scholar responds to the questions on GST posed in the introduction of this explainer.
- Arvind P. Datar
- 17 October, 2017
- Perspectives
Introducing a new feature: – ‘Explainers’
Our day-to-day lives are tossed around due to economic changes, resulting sometimes from government policies and sometimes by unidentifiable forces of the world economy. Governments always label every...
- Ashok Kotwal
- 16 October, 2017
- Perspectives
GST Explainer: A public finance expert’s view
Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, responds to the questions on GST posed in the introduction of this explainer.
- Kavita Rao
- 16 October, 2017
- Perspectives
The lad(y) doth protest too much, methinks
Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha has trashed the present government’s track record on economic management. In a recent article, economist Surjit Bhalla refuted Mr. Sinha’s claims with a point-by...
- Pronab Sen
- 13 October, 2017
- Perspectives
India’s GDP: Deflating the right way
A non-ending debate on the GDP growth numbers brought out by the Central Statistics Office has been doing the rounds. In light of the mismatch between recent trends in the growth rate and an array of ...
- Jyoti Sharma
- 12 October, 2017
- Articles
Political Change and Crime Reduction in Bihar
The aim of this project was to understand the mechanisms through which the political changes in 2005 contributed to the dramatic subsequent reduction in violent crimes. This project is an extension of...
- Oliver Eynde Clément Imbert Nishith Prakash
- 12 October, 2017
- IGC Research on India