11 April, 2025The growing burden of state subsidies
Delivery of welfare benefits to citizens by state governments in India often takes the form of subsidies. Analysing budgetary data from seven Indian states for the period between 2018-19 and 2022-23, ...
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Kishan Narayan 
17 March, 2025
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High public debt in India: 9 stylised facts
The Covid-induced surge in public debt in India was unique compared to its own history, but also bigger and driven by different factors relative to the average emerging market economy. In this post, M...
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Prachi Mishra Nikhil Patel
- 20 December, 2024
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Uneven resilience: Why some emerging markets better navigate US monetary policy cycles
As the US dollar and monetary policy continue to have a significant impact on global financial dynamics, some emerging markets are observed to be more resilient than others to the policy cycles. Analy...
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Joshua Aizenman Donghyun Park Irfan Qureshi Jamel Saadaoui Gazi Salah Uddin
- 30 September, 2024
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How to motivate India's community workers?
People who work on-the-ground are essential to India’s development effort. But how to get these teachers, health workers and so on to work hard when money is tight? This column argues that there are...
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Nava Ashraf
- 04 January, 2013
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Understanding India's monetary policy
From the outside looking in, it may seem that India’s central bank is making up its own rules, making it difficult to predict the next movements in the interest rate. This column argues that the cen...
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Rajeswari Sengupta Nirvikar Singh
- 21 December, 2012
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What will South Asia look like in 2025?
What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? This column argues that a growth miracle can quickly turn in to a growth disaster. It asks what can be done today to reshape tomorrow.
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Ejaz Ghani
- 19 December, 2012
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India's five-year plan-what's the big deal?
‘Faster, inclusive, and more sustainable growth’ is the defining motto of India’s latest economic plan. But how will it work? This column outlines the five big ideas in India’s Five-Year Plan.
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Varad Pande
- 17 December, 2012
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For the New Year
Five months ago we launched this portal to start new conversations on issues of vital importance for Indian growth and development. We had hoped that by making serious research accessible to lay peop...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 12 December, 2012
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Himayat - A silent skills revolution in the making
In this Note from the Field, Varad Pande of the Ministry of Rural Development discusses the Himayat programme in Jammu and Kashmir which offers skills-training and a job to unemployed young people in ...
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Varad Pande
- 31 October, 2012
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The political economies of land acquisition
India is in the process of reforming the way that land is bought and sold – a source of heated debate as many blame the current laws for unfairly forcing millions from their homes and livelihoods. T...
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Sanjoy Chakravorty
- 17 October, 2012
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Is economic growth always the best policy?
Is economic growth the best way to reduce poverty, raise life expectancy, and improve people’s health? This column looks at different Indian states over the last 20 years. It argues that governments...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 05 October, 2012
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Developing a Land Acquisition Policy for India
The Land Acquisition Bill is a key piece of legislation under consideration in the Indian Parliament. This column argues that the current policy on compensating landowners, as proposed in the Bill, is...
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Maitreesh Ghatak Dilip Mookherjee
- 05 September, 2012
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Monetary policy in India and other developing countries
Setting interest rates and controlling inflation is an altogether different challenge in countries like India. This column argues that in many developing countries, the financial system is still too u...
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Prachi Mishra Peter Montiel
- 03 September, 2012
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The value of land administration information for financial development
While the effect of improved property rights on economic development has been extensively studied, the specific relationship between better land administration information and improved credit access i...
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Aparajita Goyal
- 28 August, 2012
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Measuring India's Capital Control Regime
India’s policies on international capital flows are extremely complex, in part due to the absence of a consensus on the value of capital account controls. This column argues that the tools for measu...
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Nirvikar Singh
- 23 August, 2012
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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 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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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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