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Why taxing property is essential for local government accountability
With rapid decentralisation and urbanisation, wealth is increasingly vested and locked up in land and property in India. In their previous article, Kapur and Subramanian emphasised the importance of ...
- Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 03 March, 2014
- Perspectives
Taxation's fatal neglect?
Today, the public discourse on government finances in India is largely focused on spending. This article emphasises the importance of taxes, particularly income tax, in ensuring citizen participation...
- Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 14 February, 2014
- Perspectives
Boosting shared prosperity in South Asia
Two-thirds of the poor in India and other South Asian countries live in the lagging regions. This column examines whether there are poverty traps that make it difficult to achieve shared prosperity, a...
- Ejaz Ghani Lakshmi Iyer Saurabh Mishra
- 04 March, 2013
- Articles
Corruption and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
Corruption continues to strangle India’s public finances. This column presents evidence of embezzlement in India’s flagship rural employment programme and suggests new ways policymakers can test what ...
- Sandip Sukhtankar
- 16 July, 2012
- Articles
Understanding fiscal capacity in developing economies: Firms as third-party tax enforcers
The difference in tax revenues (as a percentage of GDP) between developed and developing countries has always been consistently large. An IMF report estimates it to be 10-15 percentage points.
- Henrik Kleven Claus Kreiner Emmanuel Saez
- 01 March, 2012
- IGC Research on India
State Ownership and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Indian Financial Sector During 2007-09
The study analyses the performance of banks in India during 2007-09 in order to study the impact of ownership structure on bank vulnerability to a crisis.
- Viral Acharya Nirupama Kulkarni
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India
The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt Overhang
Developing economies have heterogeneous experiences with growth and openness. This project starts by documenting a core empirical fact: The countries that grow relatively fast do so while reducing sov...
- Mark Aguiar Manuel Amador
- 31 March, 2011
- IGC Research on India