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Can Governments Increase Revenues By Lowering Taxes? A Study of Competing Policies To Reduce Tax Evasion During House Purchase in India
In the specific context of India, this project studies which of the two tools – the stamp duty or the guidance value – leads to higher truthful reporting of property prices. Using a hedonic model deve...
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Venkatesh Panchapagesan
Doddaswamy Ravishankar
Madalasa Venkataraman
30 April, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Union Budget 2016: Will it support India's economic transformation?
In this year’s Budget speech, the Finance Minister articulated the government’s agenda to ‘Transform India’ through a set of economic reforms framed in terms of ‘nine pillars’ - agriculture, rural dev...
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Nirvikar Singh
08 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2016: A UPA-III Budget
In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, contends that the Modi government presented a reasonably good United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-III Budget ...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
04 March, 2016
- Perspectives
Fiscal deficit and growth slowdown
Ahead of the Union Budget, several policymakers and economists in India have advocated increasing public spending to spur economic growth. In this article, Gurbachan Singh argues that even if India is...
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Gurbachan Singh
17 February, 2016
- Perspectives
Charting a course for the Indian economy
Karthik Muralidharan (Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego) speaks with Arvind Subramanian (Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India) on a broad set of issues rang...
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Karthik Muralidharan
Arvind Subramanian
05 August, 2015
- Videos
14th Finance Commission: A trust-based approach towards local governments
The 14th Finance Commission has been hailed as ‘path-breaking’ for recommending larger fund allocations to state governments and giving them more autonomy in spending these funds. In this article, Me...
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Meera Mehta
Dinesh Mehta
27 April, 2015
- Perspectives
Getting centre-state relations right for health in India
The 14th Finance Commission has recommended devolving a greater share of revenues to states in order to give them more control over spending. In this article, Amanda Glassman and Anit Mukherjee exami...
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Amanda Glassman
Anit Mukherjee
01 April, 2015
- Perspectives
How serious is the government about Swachh Bharat Mission?
The recently announced Union budget 2015-16 has reduced the central government allocation for Swachh Bharat Mission – the flagship sanitation programme of the government. In this article, Sangita Vya...
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Sangita Vyas
20 March, 2015
- Perspectives
The 2015-16 Union budget and India's growth
The 2015-16 Union budget – the first full-year budget of the new government – was presented last week. In this article, Nirvikar Singh, Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Cr...
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Nirvikar Singh
04 March, 2015
- Perspectives
Three concerns about AAP's promise
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has come to power in Delhi with a historic mandate. In this article, V Ramani, Partner at Access Advisory and former bureaucrat, flags three key concerns around their approa...
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V. Ramani
18 February, 2015
- Perspectives
Public spending on health coverage: Are we raising the right questions?
The National Health Assurance Mission – India’s first move towards Universal Health Coverage – is expected to be launched soon. In this context, this column analyses the extent, distribution and qual...
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Samik Chowdhury
Indrani Gupta
13 February, 2015
- Articles
How much does India spend on elementary education?
There has been a significant policy focus on expanding elementary education in India in recent years. Yet, estimates of public and private expenditure on elementary education are not available. This ...
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Ambrish Dongre
Avani Kapur
02 February, 2015
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