17 July, 2024Food, fuel, and facts: Distributional effects of global price shocks
The recent upsurge in global prices of essential commodities of food and fuel, warrants an analysis of the distributional ramifications, especially within developing economies. This article examines I...
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Saroj Bhattarai Arpita Chatterjee Gautham Udapa 
20 June, 2024
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What will it take for the Indian economy to break out of the lower-middle-income bracket?
In 2007, India moved from the low-income to lower-middle-income category, as per the World Bank’s classification of countries by income. With clear aspirations to graduate into the higher brackets o...
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Vikas Dimble Nalini Gulati
- 12 June, 2024
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Growth, well-being and distribution in India in the last decade – I
As India gets ready to vote in the general election, Balakrishnan and Parameswaran present a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the performance of the Indian economy over the past decade. In the ...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan M. Parameswaran
- 20 March, 2024
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Why taxing property is essential for local government accountability
With rapid decentralisation and urbanisation, wealth is increasingly vested and locked up in land and property in India. In their previous article, Kapur and Subramanian emphasised the importance of ...
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Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 03 March, 2014
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Service sector growth and convergence across Indian states
India’s success story in the services sector is well documented at the national level. However, similar literature does not exist for India’s states. This column seeks to bridge this gap by looki...
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Anirudh Shingal
- 17 February, 2014
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Taxation's fatal neglect?
Today, the public discourse on government finances in India is largely focused on spending. This article emphasises the importance of taxes, particularly income tax, in ensuring citizen participation...
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Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 14 February, 2014
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Can SMEs drive India's growth?
Investment, particularly by the corporate sector in India, drove high growth rates during 2003-2009. Given the expected slow and weak recovery of the global economy, Indian corporates are unlikely to...
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Pronab Sen
- 12 February, 2014
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Understanding India's unbalanced growth
Growing regional disparities in India are a cause for concern. But little is known about the relative importance of possible reasons for the varied growth experiences across the country. This column ...
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Chetan Ghate Peter Robertson
- 03 February, 2014
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Inflation targeting in India: Right and wrong
An RBI-appointed Expert Committee has recommended targeting a 4% inflation rate, but allowing it to vary between 2% and 6%. This column takes a different position on the target and leeway. It argues ...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 31 January, 2014
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Expanding productive employment in India
While India’s relatively high growth has not entirely been ‘jobless’, employment generation has been low, and mostly in the form of informal jobs. This column examines the employment experience...
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Mahendra Dev
- 20 January, 2014
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Lighting Up Bihar: Electrification to Sustain Economic Growth
This project looks at incentivising consumers to pay for the electricity consumed by the area in Bihar. The intervention specifically links the duration of supply to the payment performance of a group...
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Robin Burgess Nicholas Ryan Anant Sudarshan
- 31 December, 2013
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India's unique crisis - a short term fix
While the current turbulence in the Indian economy bears a resemblance to the situation of other emerging economies, it is unique when compared with historical experiences of economic crises. In thei...
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Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 20 December, 2013
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India's unique crisis
While the current turbulence in the Indian economy bears a resemblance to the situation of other emerging economies, it is unique when compared with historical experiences of economic crises. In the ...
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Devesh Kapur Arvind Subramanian
- 16 December, 2013
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The crisis in Indian manufacturing
Manufacturing sector growth in India has fallen from over 9% to a dismal 1% in the past couple of years. This article discusses the factors that have caused a slowdown in organised and unorganised ma...
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Jayan Jose Thomas
- 13 December, 2013
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Can India grow faster again?
India’s growth prospects seem gloomy. This article argues that India can grow fast again even in the current global economic climate as it is different from other emerging economies in a number of i...
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Nirvikar Singh
- 06 December, 2013
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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...
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- 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...
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- 20 November, 2017
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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...
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- 01 May, 2021
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