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by Amit Kapoor, Shivani Kowadker and Vanshchika Kant ‘Inclusive, sustainable and resilient growth’ has emerged as an important theme...
How can the G20 reinvent green jobs in emerging economies? Rebuilding our economies means rethinking about the future. The...
Enhancing Access & Affordability Of Nutritious Food Through Rice Fortification In India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Ensuring access to proper nutrition is a crucial component of public health and a...
A new development paradigm; more synergies and less trade-offs
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, G20, 0Conventional growth models are consumption-driven, supported by a robust manufacturing sector. The world’s emerging economies, including India, need an...
Amit Kapoor and Divyansh Sahai It is widely regarded that technological progress, especially in cities which have now become...
An Unfinished Journey Towards Urban Decentralization
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha The discipline of routine policy outcome assessment is not a matter of...
Competitive Jobs and a Developmental Pathway
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0Several economies have been built on the manufacturing sector. Many economies are driven solely on the basis of their...
Amit Kapoor & Amitabh Kant Entrepreneurship encourages innovation and enables an economy to make a quantum leap in terms...
Echoes of Bleak House: Confronting India’s Waste Management Crisis
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha In Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Bleak House,” published in 1853, he masterfully...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times,” which vividly portrays the struggles faced by...
Foundational learning for all: Leave no Language behind
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, FLN2023, 0The foundation of basic education is Language; it is a critical determinant of foundational learning because a learner’s competence...
India in an Evolving World: Challenges and Opportunities
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0“Change is the only constant’ is one of the phrases perceived as a cliché in today’s times. The fact...
Sustainability has moved beyond being a trend to a policy imperative. Historically unviable consumption levels and energy usage patterns...
India, Clusters and the Case for Uniform Growth
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0India, Clusters and the Case for Uniform Growth One of the major issues in policy has always been what...
A sliver of hope materialized when The World Health Organisation’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared at a media...
Unblocking India’s Policy Impact Challenge
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0Amit Kapoor, Amitabh Kant and Christian Ketels India’s economic history is rich with instances of policy interventions which transformed...
State of Municipal Finances Amit Kapoor, Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha “From wealth (kosa) comes the power of the Government (danda).”...
Where Does India’s Competitiveness Challenge Lie?
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, competitiveness, India@100, 0The secret is to comprehend where they are required and where resource allocation in an economy is best served...
India’s Rise and Its Global Implications
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0India’s Rise and its Global Implications The most common definition of globalisation follows that the world is getting excessively...
Often sprouting of slums is seen as an inevitable consequence of rapid urbanisation. But it is primarily market and...
A Promising Panel: Facilitating Free Trade Agreements At a time when international trade is expected to slow down in...
One of the most highlighted concerns regarding the television measurement rating is the inability of the rating system to...
The Curious Case of Census Towns: The Case for Integrated Development of Rural and Urban Areas
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Literature on service delivery suggests that a state is incapable of delivering...
Antifragile Ecosystem: A road to sustainable export growth for India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, EPI2021, 0The COVID-19 Pandemic and other global events of significance, such as the Suez canal blockage and Semiconductor shortage, halted...
Bibek Debroy, Aditya Sinha & Amit Kapoor Throughout the 20th century, modern states have pursued what political scientist, James Scott,...
Multidimensional inequality aims to assess the cause and nature of inequalities, arguing that deprivation of one kind leaves a...
An Enabling Ecosystem towards formalization for enterprises The subject of transitioning from informality to formality continues to be discussed...
Making Our Cities Smart and Sustainable: Revisiting India’s Smart City Mission
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, 0Making Our Cities Smart and Sustainable: Revisiting India’s Smart City Mission The constant metamorphosis of urban spaces in India...
India and its Income Inequality In the last two years of the pandemic, the world has been a witness...
The Indian middle class has always occupied a space of intrigue about its composition and characteristics. Viewed with both...
From Paper to Field: MGNREGS as the face of India’s Social Protection System
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Inequality, 0As per ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020-22, 8.8% of global working hours were lost in 2020, equivalent to...
Looking at the GEP of January 2021, the World Bank Open Data predicted that the number of people living...
The Economic Impact of Early Childhood Education in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Education, FLN, 0We must capitalize on it providing rich investments in early education, which will turn them into a huge pool...
Elderly well-being: Index assesses India’s response to ageing
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Elderly, 0Elderly well-being: Index assesses India’s response to ageing As our lifestyles transform due to social, economic and other factors,...
Regulating the gig economy In the recent past, the term “gig economy” has become a buzzword in the business...
It’s Time To Rethink Your Business Model The world is undergoing the fourth industrial revolution, where technological breakthroughs are...
Addressing India’s mental health: We need to begin with adolescents
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Addressing India’s mental health: We need to begin with adolescents The Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating on all fronts....
The peculiar case of India’s declining female labour force As economies around the world have grown and societies progressed,...
The tragedy of UP and Bihar along the banks of Ganga Lasting for over a year now, the pandemic...
Family planning: The next step The world, including India, has made huge strides in developmental progress over the last...
Municipal Performance Index 2020: Putting ULBs at the centre of urban development
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, MPI, MPI2020, 0Municipal Performance Index 2020: Putting ULBs at the centre of urban development Since the 74th Amendment Act gave constitutional recognition...
Re-imagining governance with Aspirational Districts Programme
amitkapoor, , ADP, Arthashastra, Articles, 0Re-imagining governance with Aspirational Districts Programme In over seven decades of its democratic journey, India has progressed by leaps...
Why India’s Education Investment Should Prioritise Secondary Education
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Education, 0Why India’s Education Investment Should Prioritise Secondary Education To optimally leverage education for achieving the desired results, policymakers need...
Creating organizational agility in a post-pandemic market
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Covid 19, 0Creating organizational agility in a post-pandemic market The onset of the fourth industrial revolution has brought with it the...
Role of technology in tackling corruption After years of efforts to eliminate corruption, whether through policy interventions or through...
The major urban development programmes being implemented are Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Swachh Bharat Mission...
US Election and America’s Deep Divide The high-stakes US election that concluded with the victory of Democrat candidate Joe Bidenyet...
How India Became Self-Sufficient In PPE India was able to realise the vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat, of not only...
Leveraging AI for equitable growth The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from industries that were...
Aspirational Districts Programme: A shift from traditional governance approaches
amitkapoor, , ADP, Arthashastra, Articles, 0Aspirational Districts Programme: A shift from traditional governance approaches The focus of policy and governance has primarily been on...
Export-led growth: India’s path to economic recovery
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, Export Preparedness, 0Export-led growth: India’s path to economic recovery The global economy was already on shaky grounds with high debt-fuelled growth...
Rebuilding Indian Economy This year, Independence Day is a quiet affair and just another day of rising COVID-19 cases....
The disconnect between Stock Markets and Real Economy Despite the high unemployment levels, a possible economic contraction in the...
Role of Equality in Pandemics Like many other natural disasters and global epidemics, the Covid-19 pandemic also does not...
The Covid-19 pandemic has awakened us to the rising inequality around the world that economists have long been warning...
Discerning the Future The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated some of the major trends that had already started to shake...
Addressing the COVID fallout Over the last few decades, the world has made tremendous progress in lifting people out...
A New Global Order Every aspect of human life, from health to the economic system, is affected by the...
Does Inequality Matter? Inequality is an inevitable consequence of economic growth. The challenge is to ascertain the level at...
Innovation is an idea that is often misunderstood. Innovation does not necessarily mean invention. It can also be doing...
During the seven decades of independence, India’s relationship with the United States has always been complicated. Before the new...
Breaking India’s Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits with the country producing over ninety different types...
Rethinking India’s Growth Paradigm India grew at 4.5 percent in the last quarter as per the recently released statistics....
Asia’s Second Coming For the majority of human history, Asia has been the economic powerhouse of the world. Prior...
The wave of resentment The world today is witnessing a pattern of resentment with multiple outbreaks taking place across...
The Asian Divergence Back in October 1949, when India was framing its constitution that would make it a democratic...
The need of humans to develop at the fastest pace and surpass all its competitors, has led to indiscriminate...
The diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan are at a new low with Pakistan trying to drum up international...
Climate Change and Rising Inequality across Countries The “war on nature must end”, appealed the sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg as...
Fixing the Economic Slowdown The economy is facing a slowdown and is evident with growth slipping to a five-year...
The Economic Argument for Kashmir While much has been discussed and debated on the geopolitical and political implications of...
Dealing with water woes For a considerable length of time, overuse and scarcity of fossil fuels had been the...
Economics of Child Progress In any society, children of today shape the future of tomorrow. The development prospects of...
Trade, Tariff and Tensions Whilst the tensions between the U.S. and China have blown hot and cold over the...
An innovative solution to job crises
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Education, India Council, Innovation, 0An Innovative Solution to the Job Crisis The fact that unemployment levels in India at 6.1 percent are at...