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The Silent Agricultural Revolution Hidden in This Year’s Budget
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana The Union Budget of 2026–27 deserves credit for recognising a simple truth that...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Detailed, extensive, and honest – that is how the 2025-26 Economic Survey described...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad In the 21st century, sovereignty is not merely political. It is digital, and...
Dr. Amit Kapoor was a part of the panel on “Tech Disruption and New Normal” at the High Level...
Sustaining multilateralism when the US steps back In recent times, global governance has become increasingly vulnerable to domestic political...
From Growth to Grit: Competitiveness as Kartavya The Union Budget 2026–27 does something unusual. It elevates competitiveness, rather than...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Extreme weather events in India are no longer deviations from the norm; they...
When Clean Is Not Safe: The Limits of India’s Urban Cleanliness Revolution
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith Sanitation reform in Indian cities has delivered visible gains, yet its deepest challenge...
Climate Performance as Income: How Carbon Credits Are Reaching Indian Farms
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Subashini Prakash Indian farmers stand at a curious crossroads, earning income from carbon credits not...
Missing Inflexion Point: India’s limited corporate R&D presence in the world As the global economy in uncertain times continues...
Dr. Amit Kapoor delivered a special address at the Inaugural session of International Faculty Development program of UPSIFS, Lucknow...
India at the AI Crossroads: Leadership Ambitions or an AI Testbed?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Skilled labour, digital infrastructure, access to critical minerals, R&D investment, scalable capacity, and...
By Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant Innovation is the fundamental driver for economic prosperity, and the work of this...
Climate vulnerabilities, the lived realities on the ground: A Case of Bihar Floods The climate upheavals of 2025 were...
By Amit Kapoor and Richard Dasher India is now becoming an unusually crowded graveyard of airlines. From Kingfisher, Jet...
Dr. Kapoor shared his views on growth forecast of India on DD India on January 9, 2026.
Dr. Amit Kapoor shared his views on Credit Guarantee Scheme for Exports on DD India on January 8, 2026....
By Amit Kapoor and Richard Dasher with Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India has become a graveyard of airlines. From...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI usage in India has...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri and Inputs by Ananya Khurana India proudly delivers free rice and wheat to...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad AI has woven itself into the way we write, think, and work. Open...
From Information to Identity: India’s Next Data Rights Frontier
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0By Amit Kapoor and Subashini Prakash For most of the digital age, the law treated identity as a security...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri with Inputs from Ananya Khurana India’s fertiliser subsidy has long weighed heavily on...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Lessons from the G20 Global Inequality Report Widening disparities in income and wealth...
Ten Years after Paris Agreement: India’s Trillion-Dollar Balancing Act
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Darshana Gauratra A decade after the Paris Agreement was adopted, climate ambition has reached its...
India must treat design as a civic skill to build more liveable cities
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0Amit Kapoor with Inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India’s cities are expanding upward, outward, and into new forms of daily...
Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri and inputs from Meenakshi Ajith India’s Aviation Crisis Is a Systemic Signal, Not an...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi A Mountain Range on Trial: The Aravalllis Story We’re Erasing The Aravalli range,...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Privacy is increasingly becoming an illusion in today’s digital era. Breaches of privacy...
From Lab to Land: Rethinking GM Crop Adoption in India This year’s Nobel laureates in Economics affirm that innovation...
By Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri (with Inputs from Ananya Khurana) Seeds of Change: Tracing the Global Roots and...
The Global South Research Collaborative’s third webinar on the topic “Funding and Funders: SIMPLIFIED” is scheduled to be held...
India needs a new accounting system beyond GDP capturing AI’s impact to ensure fair growth AI is rewriting the...
by Amit Kapoor and Anandita Doda Moving Up the Value Chain: How Quality, Design, and Branding Can Transform India’s...
By Amit Kapoor and inputs by Meenakshi Ajith Cities don’t emerge fully formed, rather they accumulate. They collect policies,...
Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith For those of us who live in Delhi-NCR, every winter is now a déjà...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad Alchemy, a pseudo-science preceding chemistry attracted the attention of numerous people for quite...
by Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana As India stands at a pivotal juncture in agricultural trade to unlock the...
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...
Clean Roads, Contaminated Grounds: The Unseen Threat of Lithium Waste
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By 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...
Africa Export Competitiveness Report 2024: A Call to Action for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity
amitkapoor, , Press Release, 0NEWS PROVIDED BY EIN Presswire Oct 10, 2025, 1:00 AM ET Africa Export Competitiveness Report The report expands its...
Meenakshi Ajith, Development Policy Lead at The Institute for Competitiveness has been selected to participate and present her work...
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...
Improving foundational literacy and numeracy skills critical
amitkapoor, , Articles, FLN Report 2024, 0By 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...
Addressing India’s Cognitive Time Bomb:Learning Deficit in age of AI
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0By 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...
Neither Solid Nor Liquid: The Volatile State of Indian Financial Markets
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Amit 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
amitkapoor, , Speaking, 0Dr. 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...
Migration to cities source of urban vitality, shouldn’t be pushed away
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0By 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....
From Dependency to Diplomacy: India’s Global Play for Rare Earths
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By 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...
Driving Efficiency: Unpacking the Economic, Health, and Environmental Impacts of Fuel Economy Standards
amitkapoor, , Report, 0The 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...
Converging Pathways: The Future of Education, Occupation, and Vocational Training in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Amit 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...
Union Minister Shri Jayant Chaudhary unveils report on “Skills for the Future: Transforming India’s Workforce Landscape”
amitkapoor, , Press Release, 0Skilling 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 | Social Security | Social Welfare Scheme
amitkapoor, , Speaking, 0भारत 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...
Economic Interdependence in Retreat: What It Means for Asia and India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By 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...
The Future of Oil and Gas: Strategies, Challenges and Realities
amitkapoor, , Announcements, News & Coverage, 0Meenakshi Ajith, Development Policy Lead at The Institute for Competitiveness co-authored a report “The Future of Oil and Gas”...
Income Inequality Across India: Patterns and Progress
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Inequality, 0By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Every tale of rapid economic growth carries within it a quiet and yet...














































































































