The Economic Argument for Kashmir While much has been discussed and debated on the geopolitical and political implications of...
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The Dynamics of India’s Growth Recession The crisis brewing within the Indian economy has gained unanimous acceptance by now....
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India’s female literacy has gone up but still 22 percentage points behind world average; education among young women rising...
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Demographic danger: India’s population is not just exploding, it’s happening in a way that threatens the nation’s productivity As...
Kashmir’s 1991 moment The special status of Jammu & Kashmir has been revoked and the state has been bifurcated...
Article 370 to be revoked: Move to make Jammu and Kashmir less dependent on Centre for funds While the...
Enabling Cities as Drivers of Economic Growth Economic development always comes with a dash of urbanization. That is almost an...
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Economic remedies for water crisis While contemplating our natural resources, conversations in the past often centered around fossil fuels...
Measuring Child Progress A society’s future is inextricably intertwined with its children. How they survive, grow and thrive determine...
Budget 2019: Kickstarting India’s developmental journey Since the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a bold target of...
Economics of Child Progress In any society, children of today shape the future of tomorrow. The development prospects of...
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The trade war between US and China seemed like a distant conflict to most Indians. As the two largest...
The Global Trade and Innovation Policy Alliance (GTIPA) is a global network of 34 independent, like-minded think tanks from...
The Budget and Beyond How does one determine the finances of a country where the growth rate is slowing,...
Trade, Tariff and Tensions Whilst the tensions between the U.S. and China have blown hot and cold over the...
Innovation Holds the Key to India’s Job Crisis India’s unemployment rate at 6.1 percent of the total labour force...
It’s time for the BJP government to introduce long-standing structural reforms After the BJP won a tally of 282...
An Innovative Solution to the Job Crisis The fact that unemployment levels in India at 6.1 percent are at...
Cartels and collusion – will the cycle ever stop? The Indian pharmaceutical industry has become almost synonymous with the...
Are Indian Tariffs Really High? The Trump-driven trade war does not seem to relent. In the latest development, US...
Debt resolution process should aim at keeping a company alive As Jet Airways temporarily suspended its operations after its...
Although certain states and industries in India are pioneering innovations, significant regional and sectoral disparities persist. Dr Amit Kapoor...
Political parties need to focus on issue-based election campaigning The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday is a...
Rather than NYAY, strengthen public services landscape The idea of launching Nyuntam Aay Yojana, a cash transfer scheme that...
Reducing gender inequalities in education Better outcomes for businesses and society The benefits of diversity in the workforce are...
Digital tools looking like democracy’s nemesis At the onset of the digital revolution, there was a high expectation that...
Over the last two-to-three decades, the major success story of the Indian economy has been the stellar growth of...
Rising disparity of income and opportunities led to rise of populism globally The political discourse across the world is...
This is the first installment of the IP Progress “Ask an Expert” series, highlighting the state of innovation and...
As the March 29 cut-off date for Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) nears, there seems to be...
Towards creating a healthier and more productive India The last four years of the Narendra Modi government have seen...
Can the UGC’s recent Quality Assurance Strategies Address Challenges in Open Distance Learning Education in India? Considering the significant...
As was being expected, the interim Budget presented by Piyush Goyal was not a traditional vote-on-account by any means....
The age of awakening: The story of the Indian economy India is an elaborate mix of contradictions and complexities....
Both China and India, started building their national education systems under comparable conditions in the late 1940s, but varying...
Future prospects for the economy don’t seem promising Even the most optimistic estimates cannot deny that in all likelihood,...
Low student-teacher ratio vs quality of higher education One of the factors influencing the quality of teaching in an...
More private investment in education can improve its productivity Given the limited fiscal space to increase the expenditure on...
Learning from the Past India is an elaborate mix of contradictions and complexities. It is rare to find other...
Reaffirming Faith in the Fight Against Climate Change Conversations in India rarely revolve around the subject of climate change....
Lok Sabha polls in 2019 still anybody’s game, BJP debacle not reflective of national mood The results of the much-awaited...
Salvaging trust after Urjit Patel’s exit Disagreements between the government and the central bank are a common occurrence in...
Universities should consult industry on designing courses to make students employable Even though the idea of globalisation has come...
Focused higher education can help India capitalise on its demographic dividend While investment in critical social infrastructure like...
Location’s the name of the game In this globalised world, there are many voices cheerleading the belief that location...
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Time now to breathe life into the country’s languishing business environment In a refreshing change of pace for the...
India’s economic growth not inclusive enough, inequality rises The Indian growth story has been far from perfect. That is...
Carbon pricing: How politics makes implementation difficult In a curious happenstance last week, two global events put the spotlight...
Jawaharlal Nehru should be understood in the context of his times, not ours It would hardly be an exaggeration...
How to bridge India’s tech-induced skill gap The world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered...
Learning from diversity in regulation Pawan Agarwal and Amit Kapoor discuss how regulation impacts the economic as well as...
News Release: India improves by 2.29 points on the SocialProgress Index in the last five years September 21, 2018...
Post Maruti-Suzuki departure, Gurugram needn’t go the Detroit way Cities and regions always have a variety of factors that...
How global financial crisis of 2008 hurt liberal democracy, open borders Exactly ten years ago on 15 September 2008,...
Rupee crashes past 72: Currency mayhem signals a deeper problem; India must think long-term, find solutions within The Indian...
Shifting to SDRs would unshackle global central banks of forex woes It is no secret that the international monetary...
India needs to rethink its currency management The economy is a fickle beast. Exactly a year ago, the rupee,...
The great divide: How inclusive growth still eludes India Inequality and lack of access to public goods and services...
The Age of Awakening It took just over seven decades after the British left India, but recent growth trends...
India needs to drastically reform higher education in rapidly digitising world As India gets close to celebrating its 72nd Independence...
A movement to make India eat safer, healthier food India is under a terrible burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs),...
Long road ahead to ending hunger, malnutrition The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) incorporate zero hunger as one of the 17 targets to...
Paving the way towards prosperity with global migration Last week, after more than a year of intense negotiations, United...
How to push India’s competitiveness Social and economic progress are the two pillars on which a country’s competitiveness stands...
Monopolies in digital space are bad for media and entertainment industry It was not very long ago that the daily...
Competitiveness and the path to a prosperous India Are most of the nations able to keep up the economic...
India staring down the barrel of a major water crisis Shimla and Bangalore are two very disparate cities. One...
Crisis of confidence in banking system provides an opportunity to unleash reforms India’s banking sector has been hogging the...
In an era of productivity slowdown, India has entered AI arena at perfect time The current global economy is...
Quebec, Qingdao and the new age of multilateralism The contrasting events that transpired in the cities of Quebec and Qingdao over the weekend...
Agriculture and Allied Activities – Pushing Competitiveness The farmers across the nation are on a 10-day strike, cutting off...
Bangladesh could well march past India on the growth path India has had an unfortunate history of losing out to...
Taking Competitiveness to next level The new Karnataka government will need to take innovation out of Bengaluru to kick...
Lessons from Karnataka The drama revolving around the Karnataka state elections refuses to fade away. The assembly election results...
Oil prices: Government between a rock and a hard place Just as the Indian economy was limping back to normalcy after...
India’s Coming Productivity Crisis Economic growth originates from two main sources. The first lies in getting more people to...
Strict KYC for digital payments = death of India’s digitalisation push? In a situation that is all too familiar...
Probit regression model can almost accurately predict election outcomes Before India goes in for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,...
Is the Economy Out of the Woods Yet? By all estimates, the Indian economy has entered into a phase of recovery. After...
The Global Debt Problem Any undergraduate student of economics would vouch for the fact that an economy in a...
Times are changing and ideas for economic growth need to keep up All economies want to produce more within...
Trade War Fears and the Emerging Market Resilience The much-dreaded trade war has come dangerously close to fruition after...
It’s All About Productivity Only sustained productivity growth can raise living standards It is quite commonplace to hear the...
India needs to create and sustain essential competitive advantages Our chief economic advisor very succinctly put it recently that India is both a...
States must stop relying on Centre’s handouts Since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh in 2014, the award of “Special...
Democracy in the age of data “Data is the new oil” has been a clichéd maxim of the internet...
Agrarian distress: India pays price of reforms by stealth The 180 km-long march of Maharashtra’s farmers from Nashik to Mumbai that swelled to...
Rising to the challenge of new job demands requires skilling at all levels. Besides, who can tell what the...
Five years on, mandated philanthropy not delivering in India India is now into the fifth year of its unique experiment...
The use of internet has undergone rapid evolution in a matter of few decades. In the 90s, the internet...
