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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,...
Enacting India’s Competitiveness: Is Climate Transition an Enabler or an Impediment
amitkapoor, , Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The real test of a nation is not how it grows in fair...
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, Hindu Business Line, 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...
Regulatory issues are increasingly taking centre stage, justifiably so, as governance of business and addressing the demands of the...
Cities must see water as a strategic tool to balance economy, ecology
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0Urbanising 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...
The Paddy Pivot: A Step Towards Sustainable Agriculture in India
amitkapoor, , Articles, Financial Express, 0By 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 Releases Report on “Enhancing Competitiveness of MSMEs in India”
amitkapoor, , Press Release, 0NITI 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...
Shedding Old Habits Now for a Sustainable Indian Agriculture in the Future
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, 0Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana India is ambitiously treading on the path to sustainability with an aim...
Time to break-free from Paddy for Sustainable Agriculture in India
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, 0By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana The Indian agriculture sector is at a crucial juncture. Intensive paddy...
India’s Millet Moment: A Holistic Shift from Paddy to Sustainability
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, 0By Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Ananya Khurana Indias Millet Moment: A Holistic Shift from Paddy to Sustainability As...
Release of Report on “Income Inequality: Labour Markets in India”
amitkapoor, , Inequality, Press Release, 0Date: 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...
Democratizing Global Health Engagement: Amplifying the voices and experiences of the Global South
amitkapoor, , Speaking, 0Dr. Amit Kapoor was a part of the panel on “Democratizing Global Health Engagement: Amplifying the voices and experiences...
Big Growth, Bigger Gaps: India’s uneven pay story
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Inequality, 0by Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Mukul Anand Over the past seven years, income inequality in India’s labour market...
The Missing Link in India’s Urban Revival
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0By 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.”...

















































































































