By Amit Kapoor The Promise and Precarity of India’s Gig Economy The gig economy is no longer a fringe,...
By Amit Kapoor is Honorary Chairman, Institute for Competitiveness and Saurabh Garg is Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation,...
“Crumbling Cities, Powerless Councils: India’s Urban Governance Crisis” Urban infrastructure nationwide is under increasing strain. Cities, once viewed as...
Dr. Amit Kapoor was part of the book release on October 25, 2025. The release was organised at India...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad One of Delhi’s most notable policy initiatives to address its pollution problem is...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI startups are growing rapidly and attracting a growing share of market investment....
Dr. Amit Kapoor delivered a lecture on ” India’s future in the age of innovation and entrepreneurship” at Jindal...
NEWS PROVIDED BY EIN Presswire Oct 10, 2025, 1:00 AM ET Africa Export Competitiveness Report The report expands its...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The wheel wasn’t invented for decoration. Neither was the bridge, the book, or...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith From Big Four to Big Ideas: India Must Rewrite the Consulting Rulebook A...
By Amit Kapoor Why FLN Matters Now More Than Ever As India charts its path towards a Viksit Bharat...
Hedging Climate Risks in India’s Agrifood System As the global population races toward 9.7 billion by 2050, the pressure...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Addressing India’s cognitive time bomb: Learning deficit in the age of AI Global...
By Amit Kapoor and Nabha Joshi Agglomeration Without Planning: Lessons from Gurugram’s Urban Development Crisis In just three decades,...
A central theme of this edition of the report is empowerment of women in trade. Women constitute as high...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The climate crisis in India no longer announces itself as isolated events; it...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs from Nabha Joshi Agglomeration Without Planning: Why Gurugram and Kolkata Demand Climate-Smart Cities As...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad One of the most contentious policies of the Trump administration was just announced:...
Devolving for a Greener Future: A Landmark Opportunity for the XVI Finance Commission Amit Kapoor and Koyel Kumar Mandal...
Beyond Familiar Hazards: The Next Wave of Urban Climate Risks The story of cities and climate change is often...
Look within, not outside: Rethinking India’s Diaspora Obsession Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Every Independence Day in India prompts...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad The advent of agentic AI, one of the latest innovations in artificial intelligence,...
What India Needs to Keep Its Infrastructure Momentum In an economy with infrastructure needs as vast and varied as...
By Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant The Supreme Court’s NTBCL Judgment and the PPP Landscape in India: A Moment...
This report presents a first-of-its-kind Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA) for India at the state level. It is...
The report offers a thorough assessment of all channels of public funding that address climate risks and disasters. Most...
Amit Kapoor & Praveen Senthil In its interim order dated July 4th, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)...
The fourth iteration of the foundational literacy and numeracy focuses on gender disparities, children with special needs, the importance...
Here’s the Anti-Christ. / Presenting the Third Anti-Christ Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith History’s tyrants conquered the world through armies and empires....
The Illusion of Inclusion: The Silent Crisis in Foundational Learning in India The latest Economic Survey of India reported...
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Institutions of Effective Governance and Administration in Modern India
Dr. Amit Kapoor shared his views on “Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Institutions of Effective Governance and Administration in Modern...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad In a move that could reshape how Indians engage with AI, OpenAI has...
Dr. Amit Kapoor delivered a session at a Two Day International Conference on STATE CAPACITY IN INDIABUILDING INDIVIDUAL AND...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Fear vs. Flow: Can Indian cities still be engines of migration? For decades,...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith Reforming Multilateralism: A Now-or-Never Moment Following the two world wars’, the...
Amit Kapoor noted in an exclusive conversation with Ananya Dasgupta on The Statesman Talk podcast that while AI brings...
India’s Clean-Tech Leap: Building a Future Ready Manufacturing Ecosystem As India charts its journey towards becoming Viksit Bharat by...
Dr Amit Kapoor delivered a session on “Decarbonizing Textile-sector MSMEs for Global Competitiveness” to Members of Parliament on August...
Dr. Amit Kapoor delivered a session at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie on August 7, 2025....
By Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda As the global clean tech and digital industries surge forward, rare earth elements...
By Amit Kapoor and Ankita Nigham India’s service sector, hailed as the ‘Old War Horse’ in the Economic Survey...
Empowering India’s Youth Through Data-Driven Skill Development By Amit Kapoor and Atul Tiwari India is currently endowed with a...
The article / Visualisation was published with India Today in the issue dated July 28, 2025. Download the complete...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand India’s Biomanufacturing Ambition Hinges on Bridging Its Talent and Innovation Gaps The defining...
Between Agglomeration and Deglomeration In Urban Economics, ‘Agglomeration’ is the stuff of dreams. When firms, workers, and ideas cluster...
Can India’s ₹1 Lakh Crore R&D Credit Scheme Boost Global Competitiveness? By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Anandita Doda...
The Report was released by Shri. Amitabh Kant, Former G20, Sherpa, Government of India at the round table organised...
The Report was released by Shri. Amitabh Kant, Former G20, Sherpa, Government of India at the round table organised...
Amit Kapoor, Atul Tiwari and Mukul Anand As India navigates the demands of the global knowledge economy, the integration...
The aim of this report was to formulate the competitiveness roadmap for biomanufacturing and bio-innovation, with a specific emphasis...
Skilling is to be understood not merely as a supply-side intervention, but as a demand-driven, market-aligned, and outcome-oriented ecosystem...
भारत में सामाजिक सुरक्षा का बढ़ता दायरा एक नए और समावेशी भारत की कहानी कहता है। बीते वर्षों में...
The report “Skills for the future: Transforming India’s workforce landscape” presents a timely, data- centric, detailed examination of the...
By Amit Kapoor Meenakshi Ajith For decades, globalization drove Asia’s meteoric rise, transforming it into the manufacturing engine of...
Servicing Next-Gen Agriculture By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana The Economic Survey of India 2024-25 boldly portrays agriculture as...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, and the fear of large-scale job...
India’s Tier-2 Cities: Will Growth be Planned or Panicked? The geography of opportunity in India is slowly shifting. Tier-2...
Why Competitiveness Must Drive India’s Next Decade In this era of the great structural rewiring, competitiveness is the real...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Every tale of rapid economic growth carries within it a quiet and yet...
Regulatory issues are increasingly taking centre stage, justifiably so, as governance of business and addressing the demands of the...
Urbanising the Blue Way For too long, cities have treated water as either scenery or sewage but never as...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Humans crave comfort and often more than we admit. Since the earliest days...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Long-run economic growth hinges on technological progress, a core insight of Robert Solow’s...
Amit Kapoor and Praveen Senthil The criteria used to measure economic development are never static. As global discourse continues the...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana As the world is shifting its attention to sustainable agriculture, millets are gaining...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Intensive paddy cultivation in India has long supported millions of livelihoods,...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana India is ambitiously treading on the path to sustainability with an...
NITI Aayog today released the report on ‘Enhancing MSMEs Competitiveness in India’, prepared by NITI Aayog in collaboration with...
MSMEs form the backbone of India’s economic landscape and serve as the cradle of entrepreneurship. They encompass a diverse...
North‑Eastern Region’s Transformation: A Strategic Key for India’s Vision for a Developed Country Northeastern Region (NER) accounts for 7.97...
Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana India is ambitiously treading on the path to sustainability with an aim...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana The Indian agriculture sector is at a crucial juncture. Intensive paddy...
By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Indias Millet Moment: A Holistic Shift from Paddy to Sustainability As...
Date: April 29, 2025 Place: Delhi Time: 11:00 AM Highlights: The study explores labour market income dynamics between 2017...
“Inequality is an emotive issue. It is also an empirical issue, since definition and measurement are contingent on the...
Dr. Amit Kapoor was a part of the panel on “Democratizing Global Health Engagement: Amplifying the voices and experiences...
by Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Mukul Anand Over the past seven years, income inequality in India’s labour market...
By Amit Kapoor Every city dweller has witnessed it: the small mounds of waste collected in corners, plastic bags...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Meenakshi Ajith “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”...
The second webinar of the Simplified Series focused on Health at UNFCCC COP, exploring the growing recognition of health...
Goldman Sachs says India’s growth will be steady despite global trade tensions and that India could benefit from global...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi India’s economic landscape is characterized by heterogeneity across states, districts, and sectors. A...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become the defining buzzword of the 21st century. It’s...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad As India moves toward stricter fuel economy standards under the third and fourth...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik If geopolitics were like a poker game, AI chips would be the aces up...
The Institute for Competitiveness partnered with Yuva Manthan for a special talk with Dr. Sajjan Yadav, IAS. The conversation...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi EU-India Potential FTA: For Shared Prosperity and Strategic Resilience India and the European...
Beyond Green Buildings: Indian cities need a sustainability reset As urban planners in many parts of the world are...
Retail inflation falls in India: इनकम टैक्स में 12 लाख की छूट के बाद एक बार फिर आम आदमी...
Mohammad Saad, researcher at the Institute for Competitiveness, has contributed to the article India is preparing to roll out...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Across the world, cities are measured by their permanence, their towering skylines, deep-rooted...
Dr Kapoor shared his views at the 12th Regional 3R and Circular Economy Forum in Asia and the Pacific...
Providing clean toilets, managing solid waste and faecal sludge at the recently concluded Maha Kumbh was a huge challenge...
In this insightful interview, Amit Kapoor, a member of the expert team, shares preliminary findings on the successful management...
Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Globally, the battle against climate change is fought on two fronts: one to slow...
By Amit Kapoor & Ankita Nigam India US Trade Amidst Reciprocal Tariffs Recently, with the change in administration and...
India’s Skilling Landscape: A Case of Mismatch The Economic Survey (2024-25) reveals that India stands at a pivotal moment,...
Conversation with Dr. Rajan Welukar, Former VC, University of Mumbai and Vice Chancellor, ATLAS SkillTech University led by Amit...
Dr. Amit Kapoor delivered a keynote address at the NCC Inaugural Competitiveness Summit at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on February 20,...
The Global South Research Collaborative’s second webinar on the topic “Pandemic Accord: SIMPLIFIED” is scheduled to be held on...
