Tag Search: “infrastructure”
Rural electrification in India: Focus on service quality
India has set an ambitious goal of achieving high-quality electricity supply for all households by 2019, and impressive progress has been made in increasing the number of household electricity connect...
- Karthik Ganesan Abhishek Jain Johannes Urpelainen
- 18 January, 2017
- Articles
How do electricity shortages affect industry in India?
Poor electricity supply is widely recognised as a key impediment to firm growth and productivity. This column finds that average reported level of electricity shortages in India reduces annual plant r...
- Hunt Allcott Allan Collard-Wexler Stephen D O'Connell
- 25 November, 2016
- Articles
Solar micro-grids in India: A reality check
Much of India’s strategy to reduce the use of fossil fuels relies on a transition to solar energy. Based on a survey of potential solar micro-grid customers in Bihar, this column highlights the challe...
- Anant Sudarshan
- 01 November, 2016
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Building connections: Political corruption and road construction in India
Rural infrastructure programmes of the government create new opportunities for growth but also for corruption. This column studies India’s flagship rural road construction programme and finds evidence...
- Oliver Eynde Jonathan Lehne Jacob Shapiro
- 13 September, 2016
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Fast breeder reactors and the slow progress of India's nuclear programme
Breeder reactors have always underpinned the claims of India’s Department of Atomic Energy about generating large quantities of electricity. The first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor was expected to st...
- M.V. Ramana
- 16 August, 2016
- Perspectives
India's housing situation
The ‘Housing for all’ scheme was launched by the Government of India in June 2015, with the objective of constructing 20 million houses for the urban poor by 2022. In this article, Roshan Kishore, da...
- Roshan Kishore
- 11 July, 2016
- Perspectives
How do rural roads affect development? Evidence from India
Despite broad consensus that high transportation costs are a large barrier to economic development, many of the world’s poor live in rural communities without paved roads, impeding their access to out...
- Paul Novosad
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
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
MNREGA and its assets
Critics of MNREGA believe that the programme is a dole to dig a hole and hence, a huge waste of resources and that it would be better to simply provide cash. In this article, Sudha Narayanan, Associa...
- Sudha Narayanan
- 15 March, 2016
- Articles
Cheaper, cleaner, more reliable: Why invest in cross-border power-trading
Despite improvements to energy supply over the years, many Indian states still face frequent power shortages. Meanwhile, neighbouring countries such as Nepal and Bhutan have large reserves of untapped...
- Deb Chattopadhyay P. N. Fernando Priyantha DC Wijayatunga
- 07 March, 2016
- Perspectives
How foreign inflows impact Indian manufacturing firms
In the past few decades, India has emerged as one of the preferred destinations for foreign investors, with the manufacturing sector receiving a substantial proportion of total capital inflows coming...
- Vaishnavi Sharma
- 25 January, 2016
- Articles
Three cheers (not) for Jaitapur
During French President Hollande’s ongoing visit to India, India and France are expected to announce that they are going to enter into an agreement to import six nuclear reactors marketed by the Fren...
- M.V. Ramana
- 25 January, 2016
- Perspectives