The 21^st India Policy Forum (IPF) 2024 volume comprises papers and brief details of the proceedings of the IPF Conference held during July 2-3, 2024. In addition to the five papers presented at the IPF in 2024, the Conference included the TN Srinivasan Memorial Lecture, titled, ‘IMF Cracks in the System: How Geo-economic Fragmentation is Reshaping the Global Economy’, delivered by Dr Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Chief Economist, IMF. The IPF 2024 also featured several panel discussions, including ‘Digitalisation and Development’; ‘Employment Challenges in India and Beyond’; ‘The Middle-Income Trap’; and ‘India’s Economic Prospects in a Turbulent World’.

2024, Volume 21, Papers

• The State of the States: Federal Finance in India 
  by Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta

• Rethinking Social Safety Nets in a Changing Society: Evidence from the India Human Development Survey
  by Sonalde Desai, Debasis Barik, Pallavi Choudhuri, Bijay Chouhan, Om Prakash Sharma, Sharan Sharma and Dinesh Kumar Tiwari

• Female Leadership in India: Firm Performance and Culture
  by Ratna Sahay, Navya Srivastava and Mahima Vasishth

• Economic Development of the Indian State of Punjab: Prospects and Policies
  by Lakhwinder Singh, Nirvikar Singh and Prakarsh Singh

• India’s Foreign Reserves and Global Risk
  by Chetan Ghate, Kenneth Kletzer and Mahima Yadav