18 July, 2022International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this editio...
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Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri 
05 April, 2022
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Thinking about financial sector reforms in India
A key element of the economy that needs to function well in order to facilitate India’s strong and sustained recovery from the pandemic is the financial system. In this post, Sengupta and Vardhan d...
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Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 15 November, 2021
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How do RBI’s actions (and words) affect financial markets?
Financial markets in developed countries are known to react substantially to monetary shocks, that is, surprise changes in policy rates announced by the central bank. Based on a narrative analysis of ...
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Aeimit Lakdawala Rajeswari Sengupta
- 09 March, 2022
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A monetary economics view of the demonetisation
The demonetised Rs. 1,000 and 500 notes were 86% of the total volume of cash in India. In this article, Ajay Shah, Professor at NIPFP, argues that if a significant scale of firm failure were to come a...
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Ajay Shah
- 21 November, 2016
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Going cashless but thinking cash?
In this article, Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay, Professor of Economics and Finance at the Great Lakes Institute of Management, contends that switching from a predominantly cash-based to cashless economy nee...
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Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay
- 20 November, 2016
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Picking up the pieces
In an earlier article , Pronab Sen, Country Director, IGC India Central, examined some of the economic consequences of the recent demonetisation of Rs. 1,000 and 500 notes in India, and concluded that...
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Pronab Sen
- 18 November, 2016
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Policymaking in the ‘grey zone’
Prerna Mukharya, Founder of Outline India – a social enterprise that focuses on data collection, impact assessments and evaluation studies, predominantly working with rural populations in remote are...
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Prerna Mukharya
- 17 November, 2016
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Currency shock: Does the gain justify the strain?
On the evening of 8 November, PM Modi announced that 1,000 and 500 rupee notes will cease to be legal tender post-midnight. In this article, Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor of Economics at the D...
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Parikshit Ghosh
- 11 November, 2016
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Kisan Credit Card programme: Expanded access to credit or expansion of credit?
Kisan Credit Card programme - a key reform in agricultural lending in India - has been operational for almost 20 years now. However, there is little empirical evidence of its impact on intended benefi...
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Somdeep Chatterjee
- 03 November, 2016
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Assessing the impact of listing on access to finance for small and medium enterprises
Small and medium enterprises are globally viewed as an engine of economic growth. However, growth in this sector is often limited by access to external finance due, in part, to SMEs being informationa...
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Nidhi Aggarwal Susan Thomas
- 30 October, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Public sector banks: The more things change, the more they stay the same
Banks Board Bureau has been set up to help the government appoint heads of public sector banks (PSBs) and to advise on important issues in banking. In this article, Gurbachan Singh asks basic question...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 21 July, 2016
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Land and financial misallocation in India
Optimising the allocation of factors of production – land, capital and labour - improves productivity. In India, where evidence suggests land is severely misallocated to inefficient manufacturing fi...
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Gilles Duranton Ejaz Ghani Arti Grover Goswami William Kerr
- 20 July, 2016
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Access to credit and female labour supply in India
While microfinance is believed to have the potential to increase female labour force participation, short-term experimental evaluations of microfinance have not found significant economic benefits for...
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Erica Field Rohini Pande
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Are small and medium enterprises constrained by the inability to raise funds from the equity markets? Evidence from the creation of a new platform in
Small and medium enterprises employ 40% of India’s workforce, and account for 45% of the manufacturing output and 40% of the total exports of the country. However, productivity in the sector is very...
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Sanjay Banerji Krishna Gangopadhyay Madhav Shrihari
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
How do disclosures affect financial choices? The case of life insurance in India
Given the importance of insurance, and the regulatory push towards improved disclosures.
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Renuka Sane Ajay Shah
- 30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
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