Over the years, the Indian state has responded to changing domestic and inter- national circumstances through reforms, the most...
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Several 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...
Beyond Start-up India – Scale-up India Amit Kapoor & Dr. Bibek Debroy When the early 19th century French economist,...
Dr Amit Kapoor contributed a chapter on “India and Competitiveness” in the book titled “India 2047:High Income with Equity”....
The Cultural Markers of Urbanisation Experts claim that culture is as old as humanity but constantly evolving. What is...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha In Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Bleak House,” published in 1853, he masterfully...
Cities around the world are more linked and densely populated than ever. While there are growing social and economic...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times,” which vividly portrays the struggles faced by...
The foundation of basic education is Language; it is a critical determinant of foundational learning because a learner’s competence...
“Change is the only constant’ is one of the phrases perceived as a cliché in today’s times. The fact...
Notes on Urban Prosperity Any study on urbanisation and prosperity takes a strategic direction to approach its increasing role...
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 One of the major issues in policy has always been what...
Incredible and incredibly experiential India: lessons to adapt to an evolving travel ethos Travel is not the same as...
India and the World: Navigating through Challenges and Opportunities The human urge to be able to predict everything ahead...
Urbanisation and Urban Dynamics Cities have come to acquire a very central position in our understanding of the nature...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In his seminal book “Street Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in...
Budget 2023-24: Harnessing India’s Competitiveness and Creating National Prosperity The budget speech began with a declaration of India’s first...
Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy What propels a nation’s growth has always been one of the key questions in...
In the year 2000, ninety-nine per cent of Delhi’s local traffic was borne by buses (62 per cent) and...
The Smart City Mission, as envisaged by the Hon’ble Prime Minister, is embedded in the idea of promoting cities...
A sliver of hope materialized when The World Health Organisation’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared at a media...
In the history of India, there have been critical junctures when the policy terrain saw significant reforms. The past...
Amit Kapoor, Amitabh Kant and Christian Ketels India’s economic history is rich with instances of policy interventions which transformed...
Looking at urbanisation as merely a process of the population shift from rural to urban areas makes us lose...
Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant The Indian economic trajectory presents an interesting case to assess through the competitiveness lens....
State of Municipal Finances Amit Kapoor, Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha “From wealth (kosa) comes the power of the Government (danda).”...
Over the years, India’s competitiveness has been marked by substantial progress on certain foundational socio-economic aspects. A lot has...
The secret is to comprehend where they are required and where resource allocation in an economy is best served...
Amit Kapoor & Bibek Debroy As the world is becoming more urban than ever, it is crucial to place...
India’s Competitiveness – Performance Gap Over the last few decades, the Indian economy has traversed an interesting journey. The country...
There are multiple lenses through which one can try to understand urbanisation in order to leverage its advantages for...
Economic competitiveness requires us to make the most of our demographic-dividend opportunity as a key growth achiever. In today’s...
India’s Rise and its Global Implications The most common definition of globalisation follows that the world is getting excessively...
Migration is one of the key demographic processes which shape patterns of human settlements and has an important role...
Why India’s Success Matters to the World, Not Just to India It is often said about the globalized age...
India@100: What’s ahead for urbanisation? With India surpassing the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy, the world is...
Often sprouting of slums is seen as an inevitable consequence of rapid urbanisation. But it is primarily market and...
An economy has a much larger potential workforce in play than just the seemingly visible employed portion. The competitiveness...
Competitiveness Roadmap for India@100. It sets out the guidelines for India to become a $20 trillion economy in 25...
The world has been closely watching India’s journey as it is on its way to becoming an economic powerhouse....
Growth should be sustainable and equitable The ‘Competitiveness Road Map for India@100’, jointly brought out by the Economic Advisory...
The strength of the competitiveness notion lies in its emphasis on attaining sustained prosperity by focusing on making the...
On 15th August this year, India celebrated the 76th anniversary of its independence from British rule. When we are entering the...
A Promising Panel: Facilitating Free Trade Agreements At a time when international trade is expected to slow down in...
The waves of urbanisation have been uneven around the world and are intrinsically tied to the level of development...
With a continuous evolving innovation landscape, regions like Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, among others have emerged as innovation hubs...
One of the most highlighted concerns regarding the television measurement rating is the inability of the rating system to...
Over the last decade, the pace of disruptive technology has pushed government , businesses, industries, entrepreneurs and consumers to...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Literature on service delivery suggests that a state is incapable of delivering...
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy The process of urbanisation stipulates a need to expand as the number of people...
An economic ecosystem linking two major economic centres, an industrial corridor, invigorates economic activity along the transportation corridor. Akin...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and other global events of significance, such as the Suez canal blockage and Semiconductor shortage, halted...
The evolution of the television news is as important a milestone for humankind as was the postal system which...
Innovation has been embedded in the development of humankind since its inception. It has helped guide a new world...
Bibek Debroy, Aditya Sinha & Amit Kapoor Throughout the 20th century, modern states have pursued what political scientist, James Scott,...
The variations in determining what can be classified as cities are as dynamic as cities themselves It is fairly...
Sustainability has imploded as an agenda with unprecedented scope and significance. India’s movement for a Lifestyle for Environment (LiFE)...
Multidimensional inequality aims to assess the cause and nature of inequalities, arguing that deprivation of one kind leaves a...
Cities have always captured the poetic imagination in how they shape culture and give impetus to the realisation of...
There are different kinds of inequalities in India that are multidimensional and intersectional in nature. While multidimensional poverty has...
An Enabling Ecosystem towards formalization for enterprises The subject of transitioning from informality to formality continues to be discussed...
The World Bank estimates that about 4.2 billion people, or 55% of the world’s population, live in the cities....
The onus of implementing sustainable policy can no longer be doled out to states alone. As per the Human...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has devastating health and economic consequences, with unprecedented disruption to people’s lives, the global economy...
Making Our Cities Smart and Sustainable: Revisiting India’s Smart City Mission The constant metamorphosis of urban spaces in India...
Informal to Formal for MSMEs: A Gradual Shift There is a huge corpus of work emphasizing the importance of...
Transforming Micro: Targeted Reforms for Easing Micro Entrepreneurship In recent years, the Ease of Doing Business reforms’ emphasis on...
Amit Kapoor and Bibek Debroy With the World Bank projecting that every seven of 10 people will be living...
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...
The problem lies in delineating the effects of inequality, intensity of vulnerability and resilience to economic shocks among the...
We live in a world of two pandemics- one caused by the virus and the other triggered by poverty....
As per ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020-22, 8.8% of global working hours were lost in 2020, equivalent to...
The pandemic has set global social progress behind several years and exposed new groups of urban-dwelling people with higher...
Any conversation on poverty and inequality reveals to us the disproportionate impact the pandemic has had on people’s lives...
Whichever way the crypto regulations go, principles of DeFi have been considered in India, and as far as the...
Looking at the GEP of January 2021, the World Bank Open Data predicted that the number of people living...
Poverty as Pandemic: A Redefinition The Covid-19 Pandemic brought disease and death to our faces in ways nobody anticipated....
We must capitalize on it providing rich investments in early education, which will turn them into a huge pool...
Risks Encountered in 2021 and Challenges of 2022 in Businesses and Economy in Asia Risks are here to stay...
Unlike the situation of India in 1960s, India is self-sufficient in terms of foods availability and productivity, so a...
Foundational Litercay: The Way Forward The State of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Report released on 16th Dec by Institute for...
Transcription of the Talk by Dr. Bibek Debroy. The Keynote was delivered by Dr. Bibek Debroy at the release...
The pandemic actually gave us a whole new perspective on online learning. With the online meets replacing actual classes,...
The need and centrality of R&D investment in the growth march of a country Nations grow at differing speeds...
For the longest time, the idea of development has been hinged upon increasing economic growth. More specifically, the Gross...
Impact of Pandemic declining on female labor force participation Until now, India was following an unusual trajectory of high...
A Coming of Old Age Story All too often, India is spoken of as a young society and economy,...
Sabka Prayas: How the citizens can do their bit As India entered her 75th year of independence, the Honourable Prime Minister...
India’s elderly population: Fiscal challenges and opportunities Ample discussions surround the topic of India’s demographic dividend. The country is...
Elderly well-being: Index assesses India’s response to ageing As our lifestyles transform due to social, economic and other factors,...
NIPUN Bharat in the New (Ab)Normal The National Education Policy 2020 envisioned children with strong Foundational Literacy and Numeracy...
Regulating the gig economy In the recent past, the term “gig economy” has become a buzzword in the business...
The challenge with gig economy The gig economy has been a driving force in shaping the future of work....
It’s Time To Rethink Your Business Model The world is undergoing the fourth industrial revolution, where technological breakthroughs are...
The interview was published in Atmanirbhar Compendium which was launched by the Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh...
What is preventing businesses from beating competition? In an age when businesses are constantly innovating, it is becoming even...
Addressing India’s mental health: We need to begin with adolescents The Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating on all fronts....
