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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Land acquisition and corporate investment: Legacy of historical land ceiling legislations?
Firms in India often find it difficult to purchase land, resulting in projects being delayed, relocated, or cancelled. Analysing firm- and state-level data, this column explores the impact of post-in...
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Sarmistha Pal Tiago Pinheiro Zoya Saher
- 23 March, 2017
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How India can reduce the size of its black economy
In this article, Parag Waknis contends that if the Indian government is serious about addressing the black economy, fundamental changes in the structure and organisation of the economy and politics ar...
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Parag Waknis
- 20 March, 2017
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Chasing one's own tail: Dealing with tax non-compliance
A key, stated objective of the recent denotification of high-denomination currency notes was to eliminate black money arising from tax evasion, and to expand the tax net. In this article, Sangram Gaik...
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Sangram Gaikwad Kailash Pundlik Gaikwad
- 01 March, 2017
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Reviving the informal sector from the throes of demonetisation
While recent measures announced by the government indicate some awareness of the hardships inflicted on the informal sector by the note ban, more needs to be done. In this article, Bhattacharya, Mitra...
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Kaushik Bhattacharya Siddhartha Mitra Sarmistha Pal Bibhas Saha
- 13 February, 2017
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Union Budget 2017-18: No amends for the sins of demonetisation
Commenting on India’s Union Budget 2017-18, Siddharth Varadarajan, a Founding Editor of The Wire, contends that dealing with the aftereffects of demonetisation requires a fiscal and monetary boost, ...
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Siddharth Varadarajan
- 06 February, 2017
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India's Union Budget 2017-18: Status quo for the social sector
On 1 February, The Finance Minister of India presented the Union Budget 2017-18. In this article, Yamini Aiyar, Director of Accountability Initiative, contends that for social policy, the Budget sugg...
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Yamini Aiyar
- 03 February, 2017
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An economist’s view on recent domestic and world events
Dilip Mookherjee spoke to Hindu Business Line at length on a variety of issues including demonetisation, the upcoming Budget, and the Trump Presidency’s impact on the world economy.
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Dilip Mookherjee
- 31 January, 2017
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Smart meters for promoting energy efficiency in rural India
This project brings experimental and quasi-experimental research methods to bear on important issues confronting rural electrification initiatives.
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Meredith Fowlie Catherine Wolfram
- 31 January, 2017
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How to go about chasing black money
In the context of demonetisation, Indira Rajaraman argues that the focus of any sustainable reform of the taxation structure must be on reducing flows of tax evasion, not going after existing caches o...
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Indira Rajaraman
- 30 January, 2017
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Land acquisition: Need for a shift in discourse?
Empirical evidence increasingly shows that farmers are willing to have their land acquired if the price-compensation package is acceptable. Given this trend, Dhanmanjiri Sathe argues that the discours...
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Dhanmanjiri Sathe
- 25 January, 2017
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Do firms in India perceive themselves to be e-ready?
Government of India’s ‘Digital India’ programme seeks to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society and knowledge economy. This column presents region-wise findings of a perceptio...
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Bornali Bhandari Ajaya Kumar Sahu
- 24 January, 2017
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Rural electrification in India: Focus on service quality
India has set an ambitious goal of achieving high-quality electricity supply for all households by 2019, and impressive progress has been made in increasing the number of household electricity connect...
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Karthik Ganesan Abhishek Jain Johannes Urpelainen
- 18 January, 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...
- 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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