Tag Search: “public finance”
The disruptive market power of foreign portfolio investors in the face of tax threat
Foreign portfolio investors in emerging markets are known to exit host capital markets promptly if any policy changes impose additional costs. Based on an analysis of daily trading data during a perio...
- Hisham Farag Andrew Marshall Biwesh Neupane Suman Neupane Chandra Thapa
- 02 November, 2022
- Articles
Accumulation of household debt in India: Repercussions for economic recovery
The Covid-19 crisis and the subsequent recession has brought about a shift in financial savings; households have cut back on consumption and reduced their demand for credit, and banks tightened lendin...
- Isha Gupta
- 18 July, 2022
- Perspectives
Safeguarding strategic interests with development finance? India's response to China's expanding footprint in the Global South
Studies have suggested that both India and China use grants and concessional loans as a means to gain favour with developing countries. Using 2007-2014 data on development projects implemented by the ...
- Gerda Asmus Vera Eichenauer Andreas Fuchs Bradley Parks
- 06 July, 2022
- Articles
Access to health insurance in India: Direct and spillover effects
Many low-income households in India have been pushed into poverty by high healthcare costs. Uptake of the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, the government-run national health insurance programme for bel...
- Gabriella Conti Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 July, 2022
- Articles
International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Videos
International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
- Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Inequality, labour market trends, and the welfare State
All around the world, rising levels of inequality – particularly in the last 3-4 decades – have been recognised as a major issue. In this context, David Green (University of British Columbia) and Pari...
- Parikshit Ghosh David Green
- 14 October, 2021
- Videos
Goods and services tax: Estimating optimal rates
Introduced in India in 2017, a key feature of the goods and services tax (GST) system is that the tax rate for a particular commodity is uniform across the country. Based on a counterfactual framework...
- Amita Majumder Ranjan Ray Sattwik Santra
- 09 July, 2021
- Articles
A decade of credit collapse in India
The government and the Central Bank have undertaken various measures to protect the banking and finance sector from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis. However, despite historically low interes...
- Harsh Vardhan
- 25 June, 2021
- Perspectives
Strengthening risk-management capabilities in the financial sector
Non-banking financial companies are rapidly inundating the financial intermediation space. While this trend has enabled greater autonomy in operations and business diversification, it has also accentu...
- K. Srinivasa Rao
- 07 June, 2021
- Perspectives
Budget 2021-22: Case for a ‘bad bank’
A key announcement in the 2021-22 Union Budget is the formation of a ‘bad bank’, to better manage the problem of non-performing assets in the financial services ecosystem. In this post, Ananth Naraya...
- Ananth Narayan
- 22 February, 2021
- Perspectives
Inflation targeting in India: An interim assessment
Inflation targeting in India is a work-in-progress, with a five-year review due by March 2021. This article presents an interim assessment suggesting that significant progress has already been achieve...
- Rishabh Choudhary Barry Eichengreen Poonam Gupta
- 17 February, 2021
- Articles