Tag Search: “growth”
Culture and development
How did human society evolve from being organised predominantly around large kin-based networks, to one with strong notions of individualism? To examine this question, Joseph Henrich (Harvard Universi...
-
Patrick Francois
Joseph Henrich
17 November, 2021
- Videos
Culture and development
How did human society evolve from being organised predominantly around large kin-based networks, to one with strong notions of individualism? To examine this question, Joseph Henrich (Harvard Universi...
-
Patrick Francois
Joseph Henrich
17 November, 2021
- Podcasts
Not by growth alone: The salience of redistribution in poverty eradication
Recent studies posit that per capita incomes of developing countries are finally on track to catch up to those of industrialised countries. In this post, Enevoldsen and Pande contend that this country...
-
Nils Enevoldsen
Rohini Pande
18 October, 2021
- Perspectives
The intergenerational mortality tradeoff of Covid-19 lockdown policies
The introduction of lockdown policies to contain the transmission of Covid-19 led to a debate on what type of lockdowns were warranted, and whether the benefits justified the accompanying economic con...
-
Damien de Walque
Quy-Toan Do
Jed Friedman
Andrei Levchenko
Lin Ma
Gil Shapira
15 September, 2021
- Articles
Balancing economic development and climate goals
Although India is on track to meet its target under the Paris Climate Agreement, the fast pace of urbanisation could worsen the problem of climate change. In this post, Ejaz Ghani outlines the policy ...
-
Ejaz Ghani
31 August, 2021
- Perspectives
Spatial disparities in household earnings in India
The per-capita state domestic product of Haryana (India’s richest state) was 5.6 times that of Bihar (poorest state) in 2017-18, up from 3.8 in 1996-97. Differences in urbanisation levels and inabilit...
-
S. Chandrasekhar
Karthikeya Naraparaju
Ajay Sharma
18 August, 2021
- Articles
Under the thumb of history?
In June 2021, Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee (Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT) delivered the inaugural Shaibal Gupta Memorial Lecture organised by Asian Development Research...
-
Abhijit Banerjee
13 August, 2021
- Podcasts
Focussing on inequality of opportunity to sustain India’s growth
India has seen a four-fold increase in average incomes since 1990, which has reduced the share of the population living in absolute poverty from 45% to 20%. Yet, there are large and widening inequalit...
-
Sriram Balasubramanian
Rishabh Kumar
Prakash Loungani
12 July, 2021
- Articles
A decade of credit collapse in India
The government and the Central Bank have undertaken various measures to protect the banking and finance sector from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis. However, despite historically low interes...
-
Harsh Vardhan
25 June, 2021
- Perspectives
India’s service-led economic growth
Structural transformation that involves a shift from agriculture straight to services, is a cause of concern to many scholars as an expanding service sector might be a pale substitute to technical pro...
-
Tianyu Fan
Michael Peters
Fabrizio Zilibotti
18 June, 2021
- Articles
West Bengal’s economic performance relative to India over the last three decades
Against the backdrop of the ongoing elections in West Bengal, Maitreesh Ghatak examines how the state’s economic performance compares with that of the country as a whole, over the past three decades. ...
-
Maitreesh Ghatak
01 May, 2021
- Articles
Growth in India: Narratives and evidence
There are various narratives on the trajectory of India’s economic growth, and its key determining factors. This article analyses the recently released GDP data series at 2011-12 prices, extending bac...
-
Pulapre Balakrishnan
Mausumi Das
M. Parameswaran
15 April, 2021
- Perspectives