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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...
A comprehensive approach to competitiveness is what we need
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, competitiveness, India@100, 0The 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...
Innovation in India: Distance Traversed and Road Ahead
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Innovation, Innovation Index 2021, 0With 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...
Journey of India’s Evolving Innovation Ecosystem
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Innovation, 0Over the last decade, the pace of disruptive technology has pushed government , businesses, industries, entrepreneurs and consumers 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...
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...
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...
Raising the Curtain: Media Industry and the Changing Landscape
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0The evolution of the television news is as important a milestone for humankind as was the postal system which...
Unlocking Potential: India and its Innovation Journey
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Innovation, 0Innovation 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...
Pathways to LiFE: Moving Towards Indigenous Solutions for Climate Sustainability
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Sustainability 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...
Increasing the pace of India’s urbanisation
amitkapoor, , Articles, Business Standard, Urbanisation, 0Cities 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...
A preferential route: Effectiveness of FTAs in Indian exports
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0The 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
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, 0Making 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
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Transforming 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...
Where does the Indian Middle Class lie?
A Need for a Definition
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Inequality, 0
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....
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...
Parable of Inequality: MGNREGS as Social Protection
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Inequality, 0The pandemic has set global social progress behind several years and exposed new groups of urban-dwelling people with higher...
Poverty in Numbers: What does the data tell us?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Inequality, 0Any 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....
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...
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
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0The need and centrality of R&D investment in the growth march of a country Nations grow at differing speeds...
Ease of Living: A step towards improving citizens’ lives through social and economic progress
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0For 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
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Impact 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
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,...
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?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, Economic Times, Rendanheyi, 0What 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
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 recipe to aspirational districts’ steady progress India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) is one of the most ambitious endeavours...
The peculiar case of India’s declining female labour force As economies around the world have grown and societies progressed,...
India’s vaccine development journey: A triumph of the collective
amitkapoor, , Articles, Covid 19, Economic Times, 0India’s vaccine development journey: A triumph of the collective Over a year and a half into the pandemic, India...
No Place for Women: What Drives India’s Ever-Declining Female Labour Force?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0No Place for Women: What Drives India’s Ever-Declining Female Labour Force? In the last century, the world has witnessed...
The Alluring Twenties: What Would it Take to Replicate the 1920s?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0The Alluring Twenties: What Would it Take to Replicate the 1920s? A year ago, prospects for the global economy...
The tragedy of UP and Bihar along the banks of Ganga Lasting for over a year now, the pandemic...
By the Ganges: The Death of Development in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0By the Ganges: The Death of Development in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Some of the most shocking and defining...
Family planning: The next step The world, including India, has made huge strides in developmental progress over the last...
India and the Elusive Demographic Dividend India has long been touted as the next big economic growth story after...
The Shrillness of Death The shrillness of death is hitting us in India. The death, the mayhem, the human catastrophe is...
A Plan for Family Planning Among the several revolutionary changes that have transformed the world over the last few...
Municipal Performance: Towards strengthening local governance in cities
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, MPI, MPI2020, 0Municipal Performance: Towards strengthening local governance in cities Even though municipalities have always been important determinants of citizens’ wellbeing,...
Good Mandate, Unintended Repercussions Amit Kapoor & Rameesh Kailasam India has been witnessing a massive surge in digital payments...
Adopt Sub Federalism as a means to transform Urban Governance
amitkapoor, , Articles, Cities, Ease of Living, EOLIndex 2020, MPI, MPI2020, 0Adopt Sub Federalism as a means to transform Urban Governance Back in 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had shared...
Labour in Post-Pandemic India As the COVID-19 vaccination drive gains momentum in India, the health crisis of the pandemic...
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...
A step forward in urban governance
amitkapoor, , Articles, Cities, Economic Times, EOLIndex 2020, Press Release 2020, Report 2020, 0The findings from the Municipal Performance Index also reveal that the Finance vertical is highly correlated with the Governance...
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...
How Aspirational Districts Programme forged new path in governance
amitkapoor, , ADP, Articles, Economic Times, 0How Aspirational Districts Programme forged new path in governance The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) has been changing the landscape...
Assessing India’s Gender Budget This year’s Union Budget has been one of the most anticipated budgets, given the disastrous...
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...
The spillover effects of higher public investment would see a boost in demand, generate employment and develop the economy’s...
Leveraging Innovation in a Post-COVID World
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Index 2020, Innovation, 0Leveraging Innovation in a Post-COVID World Necessity drives innovation. The need for transport led to the invention of the...
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...
The Curious Case of Investment in Education There are numerous benefits of investment in education. It can reduce poverty,...
The Global Economy in the New Decade Economic upheavals in modern global history have often been succeeded by promising...
Building agile organisations in times of uncertainty
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, Economic Times, Rendanheyi, 0Building agile organisations in times of uncertainty The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined “uncertainty”. Organizations around the world were not...
Role of technology in tackling corruption After years of efforts to eliminate corruption, whether through policy interventions or through...
How technology makes it possible to solve corruption As the world observes International Anti-Corruption Day today, it serves as...
India’s Aspirational Districts Programme Focuses Governance Efforts On Development
amitkapoor, , ADP, Articles, 0India’s Aspirational Districts Programme Focuses Governance Efforts On Development By Amit Kapoor, Michael Green, Mark Esposito and Chirag Yadav...
A Case for Investing in Adolescents The fallout of the pandemic for adolescents amplifies the urgency. The time is...
The major urban development programmes being implemented are Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Swachh Bharat Mission...
India’s urbanization challenges and way forward India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and its...
US Election and America’s Deep Divide The high-stakes US election that concluded with the victory of Democrat candidate Joe Bidenyet...
US election, another spectacle of polarized democracy
amitkapoor, , Articles, Democracy, Economic Times, 0US election, another spectacle of polarized democracy If we set aside the mayhem that followed after, the highly anticipated...
Google’s Tryst with Antitrust Cases: Lessons for Innovation
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Google’s Tryst with Antitrust Cases: Lessons for Innovation Over the last few years, the Big Tech firms have been...
How India Became Self-Sufficient In PPE India was able to realise the vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat, of not only...