19 May, 2022Budget 2022-23 and outlook for the Indian economy
Several commentators have lauded the recently presented Budget 2022-23 as a ‘growth budget’, on account of the large allocations made for capital expenditure on public infrastructure. On the other...
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Ashok Kotwal Pronab Sen 
03 March, 2022
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Assessing the credibility of sub-national budgets in India
The Covid-19 crisis has put immense pressure on the finances of Indian states. Fiscal consolidation in the post-pandemic period will depend on growth revival, increased fund flows, and efficient budge...
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Pratap Ranjan Jena Abhishek Singh
- 10 November, 2021
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Budget 2021-22: A passing grade
Assessing the 2021-22 Union Budget, Bhaskar Dutta argues that while there are several positive features, the overall thrust is disappointing because it does not address the needs of the poor.
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Bhaskar Dutta
- 09 February, 2021
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I4I Webinar on the Covid-19 shock
Join our Webinar - based on the recent I4I series by Dr Pronab Sen on "The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present", on Friday, 12 June 2020 at 5 pm IST.
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I4I Team
- 12 June, 2020
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Perceived obstacles among Indian firms: What happens to innovation efforts?
For countries like India where large numbers of small- and medium-sized firms cannot access formal credit and face widespread bureaucratic corruption, long-run survival and consequent distributional i...
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Hamid Beladi Nabamita Dutta Saibal Kar
- 10 June, 2020
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The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present - V
In the previous two parts of the series, Dr Pronab Sen presented a pathway to recovery from the Covid-19 shock in three distinct phases – survival, revival, and recovery. In the final part of the se...
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Pronab Sen
- 09 June, 2020
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The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present - IV
In the previous part of the series, Dr Pronab Sen presented a pathway to recovery, focusing on the ‘survival’ phase, that is, the three-month period of lockdown. In this part he discusses the rev...
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Pronab Sen
- 08 June, 2020
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The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present - III
In the previous part of the series, Dr Pronab Sen provided estimates of the economic damage on account of the ongoing crisis, and the expected trajectory of the economy over the next three years. In t...
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Pronab Sen
- 07 June, 2020
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The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present - II
In the first part of the series, Dr Pronab Sen discussed the performance of the Indian economy during the last two major economic shocks – Global Financial crisis in 2008, and demonetisation-cum-GST...
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Pronab Sen
- 06 June, 2020
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The Covid-19 shock: Learnings from the past, addressing the present - I
The Covid-19 pandemic and the containment measures adopted to check the spread of the disease, have caused an unprecedented economic crisis in India as well as the rest of the world. Further, India is...
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Pronab Sen
- 05 June, 2020
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The pandemic and the package
The government has announced a package of fiscal and monetary policy actions, and broader economic reforms to set the economy back on track after the Covid-19 lockdown. In this post, Sengupta and Vard...
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Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 04 June, 2020
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Webinar video: The new Coronavirus and the Indian economy
The global pandemic has created a terrible trade-off for every country between an economic crisis caused by a shutdown of the economic activity and a health crisis and fatalities as the healthcare sys...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 02 June, 2020
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Covid-19: Escaping the economic dangers
As long as the spread of Covid-19 is not controlled in India, there is a threat of new complete or partial lockdowns in response. In this post, E. Somanathan contends that any further lockdown risks i...
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E. Somanathan
- 01 June, 2020
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Covid-19: Does the Government of India really have little fiscal space?
Several commentators have argued that the Government of India has very limited fiscal space to provide fiscal stimulus to jumpstart the economy, and spend on the poor and on medical care post Covid-19...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 29 May, 2020
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Covid-19: Mitigating the risk from reverse migration
One of the worst affected sections from India’s Covid-19 lockdown has been the migrant workers who have been left jobless, moneyless, and homeless. Though efforts are being made by several state gov...
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Ankita Gupta Harsh Parikh Kumar Subham
- 27 May, 2020
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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 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...
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Covid-19: Macroeconomic implications for India
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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