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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A case for including migrants' remittances in inter-state comparisons
Gross State Domestic Product, a widely used measure to compare incomes across states in India, does not include migrants’ remittances. This column argues that remittances have a bearing on drawing v...
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Chinmay Tumbe
- 21 June, 2013
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Underperforming even in good times
The late Professor Raj Krishna´s term ‘Hindu growth rate’ was an aptly pejorative description of India´s economic performance in the post-independence period. But how has India performed in the ...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 14 June, 2013
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Could railways have done more to aid economic development in India?
Indian Railways celebrated its 160th anniversary last month. This column argues that while railways played a large economic role in British India, it is likely they could have done more to aid economi...
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Dan Bogart Latika Chaudhary
- 29 May, 2013
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The challenges of opening up India's capital account
A key objective for any open economy is to avoid a financial or balance of payments crisis – a goal that often calls for trade-offs between liberalisation and maintaining control of the economy. Th...
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Abhijit Sen Gupta Rajeswari Sengupta
- 15 May, 2013
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Renewable energy and India's future
In the world’s second-most populous country, it is unsurprising that the topic of energy supply should be a key issue – and, in particular, its sustainability. This column completes a series on In...
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Ramprasad Sengupta
- 13 May, 2013
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The Golden Quadrilateral: Highway to success
The Golden Quadrilateral, which connects four major cities in India, is the fifth-longest highway in the world. This column presents research that finds that by improving connectivity, the highway ha...
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Ejaz Ghani Arti Grover Goswami William Kerr
- 10 May, 2013
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Getting to a greener picture of India's growth story
The Expert Group on Green National Accounting calls for including natural as well as human capital in our national accounts, and defining economic growth in terms of ‘wealth per capita’ instead o...
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Varad Pande
- 08 May, 2013
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The Land Acquisition Bill
Will the new Land Acquisition Bill make protests like those in Singur and Bhatta-Parsaul a thing of the past? Will it make land acquisition so expensive and difficult that the pace of industrialisati...
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Parikshit Ghosh Shri Vallabh Goyal Dilip Mookherjee Abhirup Sarkar
- 26 April, 2013
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The Land Acquisition Bill
Will the new Land Acquisition Bill make protests like those in Singur and Bhatta-Parsaul a thing of the past? Will it make land acquisition so expensive and difficult that the pace of industrialisati...
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Parikshit Ghosh Shri Vallabh Goyal Dilip Mookherjee Abhirup Sarkar
- 26 April, 2013
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Long term recovery of the Indian economy depends on reforms
The Indian economy has been facing challenges in the form of sluggish growth, high inflation, and rising fiscal and current account deficits. This column highlights trends in the economic conditions,...
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Sarah Chan
- 24 April, 2013
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Why India should not further delay a credit line from the IMF
India is expected to run a current account deficit of more than 4% of its GDP this year. At the moment this can be paid for with money coming in from abroad – but what if the flow of money were to ...
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Gurbachan Singh
- 03 April, 2013
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The push and pull of skilling
Vocational training has been centre-stage in policy discussions in India over the past decade. This article discusses the perspectives of and dissatisfaction among the four groups of stakeholders in s...
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Madhav Chavan
- 22 March, 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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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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