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Bharat Ramaswami is a Professor of Economics at Ashoka University and prior to that he was at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He has held visiting appointments at universities in Canada, Japan, Sweden and the United States. Before earning a PhD from the University of Minnesota, Ramaswami obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Delhi. He was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the Indian Econometric Society in 2004 for his contributions to quantitative economics.
Posts by Bharat Ramaswami
‘न्याय' विचार-गोष्ठी: नकद अंतरण नीतियों से संबंधित चार चिंताएं
भरत रामास्वामी (अशोका विश्वविद्यालय में अर्थशास्त्र के प्रोफेसर) ने अतिरिक्त नकद अंतरण (ऍड-ऑन कैश ट्रांसफर) के बतौर ‘न्याय' के क्रियान्वयन में चार प्रकार की आपत्तियों पर चर्चा की है। उनका तर्क है कि प...
- Bharat Ramaswami
- 08 मई, 2019
- दृष्टिकोण
NYAY e-Symposium: Four concerns around cash transfer policies
Bharat Ramswami (Professor of Economics, Ashoka University) discusses four sets of caveats in implementing NYAY as an add-on cash transfer. He contends that the emergence of cash transfers as a sustai...
- Bharat Ramaswami
- 01 May, 2019
- Perspectives
Aadhaar that doesn’t exclude
Aadhaar is in the news today partly because of security concerns and partly because of reports that the poor are unable to receive PDS rations because of failures in Aadhaar authentication. In this ar...
- Ashok Kotwal Bharat Ramaswami
- 11 April, 2018
- Perspectives
Union Budget 2018: What will the pivot to agriculture cost?
The Union Budget 2018-19 focusses heavily on agriculture and rural development. In this article, Bharat Ramaswami analyses the key proposals pertaining to investment in agricultural markets and infras...
- Bharat Ramaswami
- 14 February, 2018
- Perspectives
Aadhaar Bill: Move towards a surveillance State?
Most advanced economies have had some version of UID for a long time, example, the Social Security number in the US, the Social Insurance Number in Canada, etc. This is recorded not only in interactio...
- Jean Drèze Reetika Khera Raju Rajagopal Bharat Ramaswami
- 05 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Aadhaar Bill and government benefits: Risk of increasing exclusion?
Supporters of Aadhaar express the hope that will reduce inclusion errors and corruption by eliminating ghost beneficiaries, say in schemes like MNREGA. Are there substantial benefits to be reaped on t...
- Jean Drèze Reetika Khera Raju Rajagopal Bharat Ramaswami
- 04 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Aadhaar Bill and government benefits: Better targeting and reduced corruption?
Supporters of Aadhaar express the hope that will reduce inclusion errors and corruption by eliminating ghost beneficiaries, say in schemes like MNREGA. Are there substantial benefits to be reaped on t...
- Jean Drèze Reetika Khera Raju Rajagopal Bharat Ramaswami
- 04 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Aadhaar Bill: Incremental information-gathering powers for government?
The government already has the means to collect a lot of information on citizens (example, phone conversations and logs, credit card transactions, income tax records, bank account details, etc.). Conv...
- Jean Drèze Reetika Khera Raju Rajagopal Bharat Ramaswami
- 02 May, 2016
- Perspectives
Protectionism under the guise of food security
India has backed out of the commitment it made at the WTO negotiations in Bali in November 2013. The implicit explanation is that the government needs to accumulate food grain stocks to provide subsid...
- Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 10 August, 2014
- Perspectives
Two views on the Budget
The Modi government’s first Budget has received a mixed response. Eswar Prasad and Bharat Ramaswami present two distinct views on the Budget. While Prasad is of the opinion that the Budget hits the...
- Eswar Prasad Bharat Ramaswami
- 12 July, 2014
- Perspectives
Bali conundrum: WTO and Indian agriculture
The outcome of the recent WTO meetings at Bali is a stopgap arrangement, which implies that the Indian government does not have to make any changes in the implementation of the new Food Security Act i...
- Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 15 January, 2014
- Perspectives
Some reflections on the National Food Security Act
The Food Security Bill became an Act with little parliamentary opposition. Yet the public debate has lingered. Would subsidised food grains reduce malnutrition? Won’t it be better to invest in heal...
- Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 10 December, 2013
- Perspectives