27 September, 2019Union Budget 2020 and India’s economic future
In this post, Nirvikar Singh discusses what we can learn from the recently presented Union Budget about the possible direction of India’s economy. He contends that, though the Budget is positive in ...
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Nirvikar Singh 
07 February, 2020
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Fiscal policy and economic activity in South Asia
The Indian economy is currently experiencing a sharp slowdown, and the government has reacted with corporate tax cuts and a large infrastructure initiative. Using annual data from 1987-2017 for six So...
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Robert C M Beyer Lazar Milivojevic
- 31 January, 2020
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Does the current economic slowdown warrant a fiscal boost?
The Indian economy is going through an economic slowdown. Several economists have made a case for an expansionary fiscal policy to deal with the slowdown. In this post, Gurbachan Singh argues that it ...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 04 November, 2019
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Structural transformation and spillovers from ‘Industrial Areas’
A defining feature of economic development is the reallocation of labour from subsistence agriculture to manufacturing. To shed light on this process, this column analyses Karnataka’s Industrial Are...
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David Blakeslee Ritam Chaurey Ram Fishman Samreen Malik
- 07 December, 2017
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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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Prachee Mishra Roopal Suhag
- 20 November, 2017
- Perspectives
Forecasting growth in times of transition
As per official data released on 31 August 2017, the Indian economy grew at 5.6% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year – in congruence with forecasts of National Council of Applied Economi...
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Bornali Bhandari
- 08 November, 2017
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Why are geniuses destroying jobs in Uganda?
In this article, Lant Pritchett discusses how technological progress is being driven in rich countries by distorted prices and availability of labour and is then inefficiently and uneconomically destr...
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Lant Pritchett
- 02 November, 2017
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Production responses and tax evasion with limited State capacity: Evidence from major reform in India
Although VAT eliminates the double taxation of inputs of the retail sales system, which enhances growth, it may increase the number of firms in the informal sector. This makes it very important, from ...
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David Agrawal Laura Zimmermann
- 31 October, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Production Responses and Tax Evasion with Limited State Capacity - Evidence from Major Reform in India
This project explores: what is the effect of switching from a retail sales tax to a VAT in a country with limited tax capacity and a large informal economy? The project explores this question through...
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David Agrawal Laura Zimmermann
- 31 October, 2017
- IGC Research on India
GST Explainer: Value Added Tax 2.0
Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley) and Shekhar Mittal (UCLA) outline some features of the GST that attempt to address the challenges of implementing a VAT system in India
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Aprajit Mahajan Shekhar Mittal
- 17 October, 2017
- Perspectives
GST Explainer: A legal scholar’s view
Arvind Datar, Senior Advocate and reputable legal scholar responds to the questions on GST posed in the introduction of this explainer.
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Arvind P. Datar
- 17 October, 2017
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GST Explainer: A public finance expert’s view
Kavita Rao, Professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, responds to the questions on GST posed in the introduction of this explainer.
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Kavita Rao
- 16 October, 2017
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The lad(y) doth protest too much, methinks
Former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha has trashed the present government’s track record on economic management. In a recent article, economist Surjit Bhalla refuted Mr. Sinha’s claims with a poin...
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Pronab Sen
- 13 October, 2017
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India’s GDP: Deflating the right way
A non-ending debate on the GDP growth numbers brought out by the Central Statistics Office has been doing the rounds. In light of the mismatch between recent trends in the growth rate and an array of ...
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Jyoti Sharma
- 12 October, 2017
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Inflation targeting: Should RBI revisit its inflation anchor?
Ever since the RBI switched to flexible inflation targeting with headline Consumer Price Index as the inflation anchor, inflation has witnessed a dramatic collapse. In this article, Renu Kohli contend...
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Renu Kohli
- 09 October, 2017
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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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- 20 November, 2017
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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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Global financial crisis and India: A look at the decade gone by
The crisis that emerged in the US subprime mortgage market this month 10 years ago, not only engulfed the country’s financial system but the entire global economy. In this post, Vikas Dimble and Nal...
- Vikas Dimble Nalini Gulati
- 14 September, 2018
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