10 February, 2023Pre-election Budget 2023-24: Short on extravagance, long on substance
The Union Budget presented earlier this month was the last full-year budget before next year's general elections. Rajat Kathuria looks back to India's economic performance in 2014 and suggests that th...
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Rajat Kathuria 
22 February, 2023
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Budget 2023-24: Fiscally conservative but lacking economic strategy
The Indian economy’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has not been all good news: employment creation has stagnated, and government capex allocation has not been successful in generating private ...
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Rajeswari Sengupta
- 27 February, 2023
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Budget 2023-24: Some good and no harm
Following the budget speech, Deepak Mishra weighs in on the extent to which the three goals of higher growth, better distribution, and stability were met. He discusses the Finance Minister’s success...
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Deepak Mishra
- 03 February, 2023
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What does the new IIP series tell us about the state of manufacturing in India?
In May 2017, the Central Statistics Office released the new series of the Index of Industrial Production with 2011-12 as the base year, after a comprehensive revision of computation methods. The serie...
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Radhika Pandey Amey Sapre Pramod Sinha
- 02 August, 2017
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The economic and political consequences of India's demonetisation
The ruling party at the centre won the Uttar Pradesh state election despite its demonetisation policy having some negative economic impacts on the Indian economy. By combining primary data from survey...
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Abhijit Banerjee Namrata Kala
- 26 July, 2017
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How much public debt is too little?
Virtually the entire literature on public debt is focussed on determining how much is too much, beyond which it becomes a systemic threat to the economy. In this article, Pronab Sen outlines some of t...
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Pronab Sen
- 16 July, 2017
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Changes in the nature of female workforce participation in India
Declining female workforce participation in India is a matter of grave concern, and a puzzle in the face of increased overall economic growth. This column shows that although the proportion of working...
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P.C. Mohanan
- 14 July, 2017
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Should emerging markets worry about US monetary policy announcements?
Emerging economies are routinely affected by monetary policy announcements in the US. This column finds that US monetary policy surprises have a significant impact on emerging economies’ exchange ra...
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Poonam Gupta Oliver Masetti David Rosenblatt
- 03 July, 2017
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Economic benefits of transportation infrastructure: Historical evidence from India and America
Significant public finance is devoted to transportation infrastructure, the economic benefits of which are often unclear. This column analyses two major railroad projects in India and US in the 19th c...
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Dave Donaldson
- 21 June, 2017
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Impact of disinvestment policy on public sector enterprises in India
To address operational inefficiencies in PSEs without comprising on their social objectives, disinvestment policy is often used. However, there are concerns regarding the extent of impact on firm per...
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Ritika Jain
- 12 June, 2017
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How the American Dream led to India's IT boom
In the context of the ongoing global debate on migration policies, this column shows that the H-1B visa programme of the US had a powerful impact on the US IT sector, and played a prominent role in sp...
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Gaurav Khanna Nicolas Morales
- 29 May, 2017
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When windmills tilt: The FRBM debate
In this article, Dr Pronab Sen presents his views on the ongoing debate on the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act.
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Pronab Sen
- 08 May, 2017
- Perspectives
Highway network designs and regional economic development
The Indian National Highway Development Project and its components such as the Golden Quadrilateral or the North-South and East-West corridors are planned to alleviate constraints due to insufficient...
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Simon Alder
- 03 April, 2017
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Community origins of industrial entrepreneurship: Theory and historical evidence from India
The transition from agriculture to trade and the subsequent transition from trade to manufacturing are key stages in the development process. In countries where a substantial manufacturing sector exis...
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Bishnupriya Gupta Dilip Mookherjee Kaivan Munshi
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Price risk and poverty
A common feature of markets in many developing economies is a lack of integration. This leads to substantial variation in prices of basic commodities across space, and risk to households from local su...
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Lucie Gadenne Monica Singhal Sandip Sukhtankar
- 31 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
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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...
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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...
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Due to the measures adopted to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19), especially social distancing and lockdown, non-essential expenditures are being postponed. This is causing...
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