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Budget 2021 fails to give priority to boosting jobs

The budget should have shown how serious it was about inclusive growth by announcing direct cash support to informal workers,…
The big gap in the budget – an expenditure thrust

The expenditure budgeted for 2021-22 is less than 1% higher than the revised estimates for the current year. It is…
The Time Use Survey (TUS) helps in measuring time spent by individuals on different activities. The primary objective of Time…
Evaluating inflation targeting in India

In March 2021, India will complete five years since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by the government and…
India’s budget needs to address gender inequity in employment

The government’s top priority, especially in a time of crisis, should be to cushion the blow with the provision of…
True fiscal responsibility

We see in it that gross fixed capital formation at constant prices actually increased in Quarter 2, indeed by a…
Some of the COVID-19 mortality was avoidable

While there is a strong relationship between the death rate and public health expenditure, there is much less between the…
Centre for Economic Data and Analysis (CEDA)

We really want to be a data repository and, in some sense, a one-stop hub for socio-economic data that relates…
Why Data Matters to Journalism

Data is quite hard and tedious to get access to. Even data that is publicly available can be quite hard…
Gender and education: Two dimensions of Bias

We find that the [PNDT] ban led to an increase in the probability of births of girls in families with…
Political Institutions and Policy Responses during a Crisis

We find that autocracies are much more preemptive in their policy response. However, right after the first case is registered,…
As India battles a grave health and economic crisis, it must put humanity centrestage

Then pandemic will abate one day, but if it leaves behind a large population that is unhealthy because of being…
It is our constitutional duty to ensure a safety net for the economically weaker sections of society

Restrictions that are being imposed by the State, even if they are presumed to be necessary in the present circumstances,…
Monitoring Economic activity in Real time: Interview with Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry

I see a huge scope for this data and we need to find out ways to be able to make…
Lessons from online retail data on our food supply chains

Overall, we have found that supply chains in India disrupted in the aftermath of the first lockdown have since recovered…
INDIA: Surmounting the economic challenges of COVID-19

The recovery programme proposed has two components – to provide a comprehensive safety net for vulnerable sections and to jumpstart…
Rejuvenating MSME sector in the corona crisis: Firms are better supported through “pseudo-equity” than debt finance

Many MSMEs were struggling even before the pandemic reached India. GDP growth is the lowest in a decade, and MSMEs…
Provide Equity, Not Debt

The government should offer to make direct investments in businesses by taking a ‘minority stake’, which will be recovered through…
What Would Make India’s Growth Sustainable?

Rural-led growth relying on domestic demand is not likely to generate such high rates of growth. However, slower growth that…
Fighting the coronavirus: How to get vaccines speedily to people who need them, once one has been found

Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz suggested a partial alternative to the patent system that would both incentivise research but avoid monopoly…
Economics in Quarantine

Given the lockdown, what is not negotiable is extensive and generous government spending to compensate for the known costs of…