The Alluring Twenties: What Would it Take to Replicate the 1920s? A year ago, prospects for the global economy...
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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 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 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 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 Since the 74th Amendment Act gave constitutional recognition...
The 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 In over seven decades of its democratic journey, India has progressed by leaps...
How 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 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 Necessity drives innovation. The need for transport led to the invention of the...
Creating 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 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 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 If we set aside the mayhem that followed after, the highly anticipated...
Google’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...
Lessons from the Bangladesh Growth Story The International Monetary Fund released the biannual World Economic Outlook this month with...
India’s successful journey to self-sufficiency in PPE kits The AtmaNirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) mission was launched as a result...
AI for inclusive growth The use of automation was one of the trends that was accelerated by the pandemic....
Leveraging AI for equitable growth The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from industries that were...
Institute for Competitiveness and Times Network Business Perception Survey: How have Indian Businesses been impacted during and after the...
Aspirational Districts Programme: A shift from traditional governance approaches The focus of policy and governance has primarily been on...
Aspirational Districts Programme shifts the focus back on development Economic growth and human development are two different concepts that...
Decoding the Economic Contraction Almost half of the current financial year has been completed with the COVID-19 pandemic still...
Export-led growth: India’s path to economic recovery The global economy was already on shaky grounds with high debt-fuelled growth...
India’s exports: New opportunities and newer challenges The global economy faces challenging times ahead. Even before COVID-19 brought the...
According to the report, six of eight coastal states feature in the top ten rankings, indicating the presence of...
Rearranging the Workplace: The Need for Innovation in Management From the way we manufacture goods to the way we...
Rebuilding Indian Economy This year, Independence Day is a quiet affair and just another day of rising COVID-19 cases....
Indian economy and new beginnings As India gears up to celebrate Independence Day this year, albeit in a more...
The disconnect between Stock Markets and Real Economy Despite the high unemployment levels, a possible economic contraction in the...
Two Sides of the Same Crisis: Stock Markets and Real Economy Here’s the conundrum. The unemployment levels in India...
Role of Equality in Pandemics Like many other natural disasters and global epidemics, the Covid-19 pandemic also does not...
Keeping India on track: Why the current wave of rail reforms is actually “historical”? One of the most overused adjectives in the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has awakened us to the rising inequality around the world that economists have long been warning...
Capitalism needs an ethical reboot Economists have been cautioning about the rising inequality around the world for some time...
How Coronavirus Accentuates Inequality Inequality is a phenomenon that always permeates all levels of society across all walks of...
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...
With the shifts in global economic order, political landscape and social behavior all taking place simultaneously, it is safe...
The Signal in the Noise: Using the Best Data to Combat COVID-19 in India It is impossible to truly...
A New Global Order Every aspect of human life, from health to the economic system, is affected by the...
Rejuvenating India’s Growth Paradigm After Narendra Modi’s announcement last week of a gargantuan economic package, India spent the days glued to...
The Path of Self Reliance There were two aspects to Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on the 49th night...
This pandemic could act as a starting point for the re-orientation of the primary and district health care systems...
We will come out of this catastrophe with not only positive changes, but negative practices as well. The Covid-19...
Franchisees need support from their franchisors, not exploitation. Even if the government disincentivises exploitative behaviour in view of this...
Our World After Coronavirus By the end of the second world war, the world had been reduced to ruins....
How COVID-19 is Impacting India? Uncertainty is abound as the world grapples with the spread of coronavirus. If one...
The Indian experience of the deadly Spanish flu of 1918 shows how pandemics interact with social divide across communities ...
Tackling the Inevitable: The Need for New Economic Ideas in the Time of Coronavirus The machines have stopped. The...
Does Inequality Matter? Inequality is an inevitable consequence of economic growth. The challenge is to ascertain the level at...
The Missing Politics of Inequality Inequality is an inevitable outcome of economic growth. Only its extent can be kept...
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...
There will be several gains for India to make for itself by resolving the trade equations with the US. ...
When economists, policymakers, and media commentators discuss growth or compare living standards across countries, they typically turn to a...
Strategies for Innovation Innovation is an idea that is often discussed but equally misunderstood. In simple terms, innovation is...
Budget 2020: Cutting the Fiscal Restraints There were a lot of expectations riding on the Budget this year as...
The Need for Gender Budgeting The progress of a nation is inextricably linked with the status of its women....
Breaking India’s Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits with the country producing over ninety different types...
Is it time for a more realistic disinvestment target? The upcoming Budget might be the most crucial one for...
How India can keep its airlines afloat In the past decade, the Indian aviation industry has seen two airlines...
Breaking the Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits. The country is the second-largest producer of steel;...
India’s Worrying Growth Statistics and What They Mean for the Future The Indian economy grew at 4.5 percent in...
Can Asia regain its former glory? For most of human history – or as far as data can tell...
The wave of resentment The world today is witnessing a pattern of resentment with multiple outbreaks taking place across...
The most effective investments a country can make is in its children. The young of today go on to...
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...
As income levels across the world rose in the past decades, so did income inequality. In 2016, more than...
What India can Learn from China’s 70 Years of Economic Growth? China celebrated the 70th anniversary of becoming a communist...
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Climate Change and Rising Inequality across Countries The “war on nature must end”, appealed the sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg as...
Game theoretic approach to India-Pakistan conflict The tensions between India and Pakistan refuse to abate. Ties between the two...
Even before biscuits, cars and growth numbers made the economic slowdown an uncomfortable reality for India, unemployment numbers gave...
Role of Social Progress Index in measuring SDG’s In this highly competitive and fast-growing world, every individual wants to...
The new data reveals the world is underperforming on eight out of 12 major sections of the SPI Based...
Missing female labour force: India could lose out on economic dividends with inadequate job creation
India has been undergoing a curious trend. It was expected that India’s young demographic would pay significant dividends as...
Is Liberal Democracy Under Threat? Amit Kapoor Every century has its own defining moment. For the nineteenth century, it...
Fixing the Economic Slowdown The economy is facing a slowdown and is evident with growth slipping to a five-year...
The Problem of Growing Household Debt in India Since the 2008 financial crises, global debt has been on a...
