The 18th India Policy Forum 2021 Volume comprises papers and brief details of the proceedings of the IPF Conference held virtually during 12-15 July, 2021. Apart from presentation of four papers, the IPF Conference also included two lectures, the 3rd T.N. Srinivasan Memorial Lecture, titled, “Responding to COVID-19 amidst Market and Government Failures”, delivered by Professor Shanta Devarajan, Georgetown University and NCAER, and the Annual IPF Lecture, titled, “Federalism during the Pandemic”, delivered by Mr N.K. Singh, Chairman, Fifteenth Finance Commission and former member of the Rajya Sabha. In addition, the 2021 IPF featured two Roundtables focusing on “Future of India’s Economic Reforms: 30 Years after ‘bata teri raza kya hai (What’s your wish?)’, Looking Back to Look Ahead” and “India Emerging from the Long Shadow of COVID-19”.

2021, Volume 18, Papers

• Big, Open Data for Development: A Vision for India 
  by Sam Asher, Aditi Bhowmick, Alison Campion, Tobias Lunt and Paul Novosad

• Analysing India’s Exchange Rate Regime
  by Rajeswari Sengupta and Ila Patnaik

• COVID-19 and India’s Macro Economy: Pre-Existing Conditions, Performance and Prospects
  by Sajjid Z. Chinoy and Toshi Jain

• Integrating Biometric Authentication in India’s Welfare Programs: Lessons from a Decade of Reforms
  by Sandip Sukhtankar, Paul Niehaus and Karthik Muralidharan 

Policy Roundtables

• The future of economic reforms: 30 years after “बता तेरी रजा क्या है? (What’s your wish?)” Looking Back to Look Ahead
  by Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Vijay L. Kelkar, Ashok Chawla and T.V. Somanathan

• Emerging from the Long Shadow of COVID-19
  by Gautam I. Menon, Farzana Afridi, Lant Pritchett and Renana Jhabvala

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