Policy Roundup: Trump tariffs, India’s energy security, broader export strategy
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to US tariffs on India, oil trade and energy security, and the need for g...
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Nalini Gulati
01 September, 2025
- Perspectives
Why statisticians matter for nation-building
In a data-driven era, the role of statisticians in shaping national development is more vital than ever. Yet, their presence in key policy domains remains limited. In this post, Pramanik and Das conte...
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Sourish Das
Santanu Pramanik
26 June, 2025
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The man who loved forests
On Ideas for India’s 10th anniversary, our Editor-in-Chief Parikshit Ghosh pens a tribute honouring the late Ashok Kotwal, whose vision and values percolated our portal’s character to make it a ve...
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Parikshit Ghosh
19 July, 2022
- Editors Corner
Policy Roundup: Domestic reform push amidst global turmoil
Recent disruptions to global trade have brought into focus the need for holistic policy reforms in India – aimed at enhancing productivity, innovation, and competitiveness in economic activity. Agai...
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Nalini Gulati
01 October, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Trump tariffs, India’s energy security, broader export strategy
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to US tariffs on India, oil trade and energy security, and the need for g...
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Nalini Gulati
01 September, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Critical minerals, Yamuna cleanup, school consolidation
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to governance of India’s mining sector; the Delhi government’s effort...
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Nalini Gulati
04 August, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: 50 years post Emergency, forest rights, ethanol policy
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to coercive sterilisation of males during India’s period of Emergency; challen...
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Nalini Gulati
02 July, 2025
- Perspectives
Why statisticians matter for nation-building
In a data-driven era, the role of statisticians in shaping national development is more vital than ever. Yet, their presence in key policy domains remains limited. In this post, Pramanik and Das conte...
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Sourish Das
Santanu Pramanik
26 June, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: India-UK FTA, good monsoon, medium firms
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the India-UK free trade agreement, predictions of an above-normal monsoon thi...
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Nalini Gulati
30 May, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Heat waves, smart cities, poverty debate
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to extreme heat predictions for Indian summer and the environmental impacts of c...
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Nalini Gulati
30 April, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: State budgets, time use survey, natural calamities
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to state budgets, gender gaps in time use, and mitigating the impact of natural ...
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Nalini Gulati
01 April, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: Union Budget and “Sabka Vikas”
Following the release of the Economic Survey of India and the Union Budget for 2025-26 – which reflect the official assessment of the state of the Indian economy and the government’s priorities an...
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Nalini Gulati
12 February, 2025
- Perspectives
Policy Roundup: 1.5 degree breach, Trump’s America, ASER 2024
This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the policy landscape – highlighting I4I content pertaining to the widespread negative effects of climate change and what can be done to mit...
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Nalini Gulati
31 January, 2025
- Perspectives
I4I's 2024 Highlights
In 2024, Ideas for India featured 196 research-based Articles, opinion-based Perspectives, and Notes From the Field, of which 57 were available in Hindi; hosted content from three conferences, and int...
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I4I Team
23 December, 2024
- Editors Corner
Making sense of the 2024 Economics Nobel
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”. In this post, Pulapre Balakrishnan evaluate...
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Pulapre Balakrishnan
06 December, 2024
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Evidence, policy, and politics
Commenting on the concept of evidence-based policy, Jean Drèze argues that the relation between evidence and policy needs further thought. Based on his involvement with social policy in India, he bel...
Jean Drèze
03 August, 2018
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On the perils of embedded experiments
There is growing interest in ‘embedded experiments’, conducted by researchers and policymakers as a team. Aside from their potential scale, the main attraction of these experiments is that they se...
Jean Drèze
10 March, 2022
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The particulars of social policy in India: Evidence, State capacity, and policy design
Economist-activist Jean Drèze has argued that economists are no better equipped to comment on development policy design than other social science researchers and other stakeholders, and that policyma...
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12 September, 2018
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