The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has devastating health and economic consequences, with unprecedented disruption to people’s lives, the global economy...
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...
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....
Collared shirts, creased trousers, colourful ties and a crest engraved belt Growing up, we all saw our school uniform...
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...
Poverty as Pandemic: A Redefinition The Covid-19 Pandemic brought disease and death to our faces in ways nobody anticipated....
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...
The pandemic actually gave us a whole new perspective on online learning. With the online meets replacing actual classes,...
For a sustainable ecosystem to materialise there is a need for handholding by the government and it is high...
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...
NIPUN Bharat in the New (Ab)Normal The National Education Policy 2020 envisioned children with strong Foundational Literacy and Numeracy...
The challenge with gig economy The gig economy has been a driving force in shaping the future of work....
What is preventing businesses from beating competition? In an age when businesses are constantly innovating, it is becoming even...
The recipe to aspirational districts’ steady progress India’s Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) is one of the most ambitious endeavours...
India’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? In the last century, the world has witnessed...
The Alluring Twenties: What Would it Take to Replicate the 1920s? A year ago, prospects for the global economy...
By the Ganges: The Death of Development in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Some of the most shocking and defining...
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...
Labour in Post-Pandemic India As the COVID-19 vaccination drive gains momentum in India, the health crisis of the pandemic...
The findings from the Municipal Performance Index also reveal that the Finance vertical is highly correlated with the Governance...
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...
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...
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...
How technology makes it possible to solve corruption As the world observes International Anti-Corruption Day today, it serves as...
A Case for Investing in Adolescents The fallout of the pandemic for adolescents amplifies the urgency. The time is...
India’s urbanization challenges and way forward India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and its...
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...
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....
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...
India’s exports: New opportunities and newer challenges The global economy faces challenging times ahead. Even before COVID-19 brought the...
Rearranging the Workplace: The Need for Innovation in Management From the way we manufacture goods to the way we...
Indian economy and new beginnings As India gears up to celebrate Independence Day this year, albeit in a more...
Two Sides of the Same Crisis: Stock Markets and Real Economy Here’s the conundrum. The unemployment levels in India...
Keeping India on track: Why the current wave of rail reforms is actually “historical”? One of the most overused adjectives in the...
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...
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...
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....
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...
The Missing Politics of Inequality Inequality is an inevitable outcome of economic growth. Only its extent can be kept...
There will be several gains for India to make for itself by resolving the trade equations with the US. ...
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....
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...
