By Amit Kapoor The Promise and Precarity of India’s Gig Economy The gig economy is no longer a fringe,...
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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...
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....
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,...
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...
Amit Kapoor & Praveen Senthil In its interim order dated July 4th, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)...
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...
By Amit Kapoor and Mohammad Saad In a move that could reshape how Indians engage with AI, OpenAI has...
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...
India’s Clean-Tech Leap: Building a Future Ready Manufacturing Ecosystem As India charts its journey towards becoming Viksit Bharat by...
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...
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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...
Amit Kapoor, Atul Tiwari and Mukul Anand As India navigates the demands of the global knowledge economy, the integration...
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...
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...
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...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
India entered its demographic dividend in 2005-06 with expected peak in 2040 creating high hopes and expectations of economic...
By Amit Kapoor The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, which over 470 million people have already visited, is a world...
By Amit Kapoor and Conor Martin For one who has been born, death is certain; and for one who...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith The city of Kumbh on the banks of Sangam is likened to a...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith From Contamination to Restoration: Addressing Urban Groundwater Pollution The recently published Annual Groundwater...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik India’s Education Challenge: Low Learning Outcomes and Underperforming Higher Education “Education is the most...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Meenakshi Ajith Beneath the Surface: Tackling Urban Groundwater Contamination Water is in constant...
The economic reinvention of Uttar Pradesh By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Uttar Pradesh, the fifth-largest economy in India...
By Amit Kapoor and Ananya Khurana India is a powerhouse in agriculture and dominates the production of essential food...
By Amit Kapoor & Menakshi Ajith As India marches toward its vision for 2047, the year 2025 is a...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Mukul Anand Labour markets are dynamic systems where workers and employers interact. They...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Nabha Sandip Joshi Municipal Finances in Focus: A key to Transforming Urban Governance...
By Amit Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith As we are living in times when toddlers are Instagram stars, it is...
The Strategy Delhi need to resolve its water crises Amit Kapoor and Pradeep Puri If there is one defining...
The latest Global Innovation Index (GII) report ranks 130 countries based on their innovative capacities and outcomes, utilizing 78...
Amit Kapoor, Pradeep Puri and Shrey Tiwari The World Bank’s India Development Update, released in September this year, recommended...
By Amit Kapoor Cities are more than just mere collection of buildings; they are dynamic networks-of-networks of social systems,...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Bridging the Healthcare Gap India has focused on leveraging its demographic dividend; however,...
The emergence of Emerging Market Economies In the last two decades, the world’s economic centre of gravity (WECG) has...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs from Vidhi Tiwari Economics of Biodiversity Losses: Perspective on Conservation and Costs The ongoing...
A Mind Beyond Measure: Celebrating Bibek Da’s Legacy By Amit Kapoor Only a few individuals leave an expansive and...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi The celebration of National Unity Day is incomplete without remembering the legacy left...
By Amit Kapoor It is often said that a great mind leaves a trail of ideas that illuminates the...
By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Historically, India’s luxury landscape has evolved from the opulence of maharajas to a...
By Amit Kapoor and Inputs by Jessica Duggal We often spot one corner or part of the city that...
SpaceX: Innovating Our Future Through R&D In 1969, Neil Armstrong took his historic step onto the lunar surface and...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik The Battery as a service programme (BAAS) is a battery leasing program under which...
By Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Developing and expanding sustainable energy sources is essential to transitioning to a robust...
Melting Pots to Powerhouses: The Economic Benefits of Diversity and Tolerance By Amit Kapoor & Meenakshi Ajith The hallmark...
By Amit Kapoor and Vidhi Tiwari Indian agriculture has long been a central area of focus for a range...
Blue Lifelines of Cities – Rivers and Urban Growth in India The paradox of environmental preservation and urban development...
By Amit Kapoor As we navigate the complexities of the 21st century, our world grapples with an unprecedented array...
It has lured street vendors to join the formal sector and this model could be used for others too ...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik Over the last five years, the Electric Vehicle Industry in India has undergone a...
