04 February, 2019Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s contribution to endogenous growth theory
What motivates people like Steve Jobs to spend time, money, and effort in developing new ideas despite the implicit hazard that ideas can easily be copied later? In this post, Mausumi Das contends tha...
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Mausumi Das 
24 October, 2018
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How tax incentives influence household financial saving
Indian households tend to hold a high fraction of their wealth in non-financial assets such as real estate and gold. Tax policy has been used to incentivise saving in financial assets and encouraging ...
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Radhika Pandey Ila Patnaik Renuka Sane
- 28 January, 2019
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India’s national policy framework on e-commerce: Issues and concerns
In July 2018, India released a draft national policy framework on e-commerce among its stakeholders. The ensuing debate led to the government announcing a revised draft policy. In this post, Rahul Cho...
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Rahul Choudhury
- 12 November, 2018
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Could emerging economies change the rules of the global labour standards game?
In an increasingly global marketplace, the ramping up of trade has drastically altered the way goods are manufactured and sold. In this article, Kuntala Bandyopadhyay, research associate at ICRIER, d...
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Kuntala Bandyopadhyay
- 24 August, 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 ...
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M.V. Ramana
- 16 August, 2016
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Is India a tax haven for the rich?
In April, the government released tax data, which provided a break-up of taxes by income categories for the year 2012-13. In this article, Himanshu, Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University...
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Himanshu .
- 10 August, 2016
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Analysing worker responses to a contract change
Higher-powered incentives are generally believed to increase worker productivity. In the context of an Indian tea plantation, this column examines a contract change wherein baseline wages were increas...
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Rajshri Jayaraman Debraj Ray
- 08 August, 2016
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A comparison of automobile industries in India and China
The automobile sector in both India and China developed due to waves of investment in these countries since the late 1980s. This column discusses how India’s automobile sector has grown differently ...
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Smita Miglani Saon Ray
- 05 August, 2016
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Inflation targeting: A long way to go
The Finance Bill, 2016, amended the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934, to define inflation targeting as the primary objective of the central bank. In this article, Rajeswari Sengupta, Assistant P...
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Rajeswari Sengupta
- 18 July, 2016
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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...
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Roshan Kishore
- 11 July, 2016
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Why is labour mobility in India so low?
Rural-to-urban migration is surprisingly low in India, compared with other large developing countries, leaving higher paying job opportunities unexploited. This column shows that well-functioning rura...
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Kaivan Munshi Mark Rosenzweig
- 04 July, 2016
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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 o...
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Paul Novosad
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Markups and capital misallocation: A trade-off? Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Capital misallocation in India has continuously increased over the past two decades, despite extensive liberalisation. At the same time, the importance of financial frictions for the Indian economy ha...
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Simon Galle
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Fixit, not Brexit
In a referendum on 23 June, Britain voted for its exit from the European Union. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, discusses the causes and likely ...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
- 24 June, 2016
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What does China’s ‘new normal’ mean for India?
China’s new normal – a growth rate of at least 6.5% - has been set as a target in its 13th Five Year Plan. In this article, Sharmila Kantha, Principal Consultant, Confederation of Indian Industry,...
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Sharmila Kantha
- 17 June, 2016
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Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...
- Gurbachan Singh
- 29 February, 2016
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Land records and titles in India
Land ownership is broadly determined by access to a land title, which protects the rights of the title-holder, and impacts livelihoods, and industrial, economic, and social growth. However, land title...
- Prachee Mishra Roopal Suhag
- 20 November, 2017
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Renewable energy and India's future
In the world’s second-most populous country, it is unsurprising that the topic of energy supply should be a key issue – and, in particular, its sustainability. This column completes a series on I...
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- 13 May, 2013
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