Tag Search: “data”
The Growth of Cities in India, 1870-2020
The aim of this project is to understand the determinants of city growth in India in the short run and over the long period. By analysing data on cities from every decennial Census conducted in India ...
- Chinmay Tumbe
- 20 February, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Data-jam: Could data reduce road congestion in Dhaka?
While urbanisation is key to economic growth, failure to address the downsides of the process - such as congestion - may deter the ability of cities to achieve their full growth potential. This colum...
- Filippo Sebastio
- 01 February, 2016
- Articles
Unleashing the full potential of India's 'Open Government Data' initiative
In October 2012, India embarked upon its ‘Open Government Data’ journey, by opening up access to government-owned shareable data in machine-readable formats for the use of general public. In this art...
- Natasha Agarwal
- 26 January, 2016
- Perspectives
Against the tide: Deaton's economics
In a tribute to Angus Deaton, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics, Reetika Khera, who did her post-doctorate research at Princeton University under Deaton, outlines his India-specific cont...
- Reetika Khera
- 17 December, 2015
- Perspectives
India, China and growth forecasts
The World Bank and IMF have predicted that India’s growth rate would overtake that of China in 2015-16. In this article, Kaushik Basu, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the World Bank, cont...
- Kaushik Basu
- 02 December, 2015
- Perspectives
Angus Deaton's ideas for India
In a tribute to Angus Deaton, the 2015 Nobel laureate in Economics, Diane Coffey and Dean Spears – former graduate students of Prof. Deaton at Princeton University – review some of his work on the we...
- Diane Coffey Dean Spears
- 30 October, 2015
- Perspectives
The coexistence of prosperity and poverty in India
Credit Suisse recently reported that the richest 10% Indians own about 75% of the country’s wealth, highlighting the growing problem of inequality. This column presents trends in inequality in India ...
- Dhairiyarayar Jayaraj S. Subramanian
- 21 October, 2015
- Articles
Has the recession which began in 2012 ended?
The high growth rates visible in the new GDP data suggest that the recession which began in the first quarter of 2012 has now ended. Based on analysis of data on firms, investment and Balance of Paym...
- Ajay Shah
- 04 September, 2015
- Articles
Impact Evaluation of a Public Health Insurance Plan in India: Post Health Event Survey Pilot
This project pilots a Post Health Event Survey (PHES). The PHES is a potentially more efficient survey strategy than conducting one annual survey of all households. The PHES pilot was conducted in two...
- Cynthia Kinnan Anup Malani Alessandra Voena
- 01 September, 2015
- IGC Research on India
The political economy of data
Recent experiences, especially from Scandinavian countries, show that opening administrative data sources can substantially improve public policymaking. In this article, Pande and Blum contend that w...
- Florian Blum Rohini Pande
- 21 August, 2015
- Perspectives
Why numbers matter
The delayed and partial release of data from the ‘Rapid Survey on Children’ by the Indian government has given rise to questions and speculation. In this article, former bureaucrat V. Ramani discusse...
- V. Ramani
- 23 July, 2015
- Perspectives
Clearing the fog on the new GDP numbers
The Central Statistics Office recently changed the way GDP is calculated in India, revising the growth estimate for 2013-14 from 4.7% to 6.9%. Many are confused and skeptical about the new numbers, p...
- Saugata Bhattacharya
- 24 June, 2015
- Perspectives