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NITI Aayog’s effort though creditable has loose ends. PLFS should use 2015 worker classification and probe nature of contracts. At the outset NITI Aayog needs to be complimented for undertaking the onerous task of trying to estimate the number of gig workers. The report ‘India’s Booming Gig and Platform Economy: Perspectives and Recommendations on the...   Read More

All public sector banks (PSBs) should be privatised and only SBI— due to its better performance — may remain under government ownership for now, a policy paper by two influential economists has recommended. The policy paper is to be presented at the India Policy Forum on Tuesday. It has been authored by Poonam Gupta, NCAER...   Read More

Opinion: Mridul Saggar: In China, 82% of adults made a digital merchant payment using a mobile phone. In India, the figure is just 8%. In China, 38% of adults have credit cards. In India, only 5% do. Is the lower per-capita income - and, therefore, higher default risks - sufficient to explain this? On June 29,...   Read More

The recent announcement by West Bengal transport minister Firhad Hakim has practically signaled the death knell of Kolkata tramways the only city in India which still operates trams. The plan is no more to revive the tram route in the popular north Kolkata route. The plan now is to operate trams only in routes where...   Read More

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...   Read More

Input-Output Transactions Table (IOTT) is the matrix representation of a nations or a regions economy, and is used to analyse the inter-industry relations therein, depicting how the output of one industry is used as input in other industries, thereby making each industry dependent on other industries both as an user and as a supplier. It,...   Read More

In the Review, we summarise the economic and policy developments in India; monitor global developments of relevance to India; and showcase the pulse of the economy through an analysis of high-frequency indicators and the heat map. Latest Issue: July 2022 Previous Issues: June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December...   Read More

A government job with its benefits and safety net is an aspiration for most Indians. Any perceived rollback in such employment opportunities is bound to fuel anxiety. What is surprising about the protests is that the government appears to be surprised that there should be any protest. To appreciate the anguish underlying these protests we...   Read More

It is widely believed there is an unevenness in the way rating agencies treat the countries in the Euro zone versus elsewhere. A better governance structure and operating framework are needed to ensure that in situations when EMs are grappling with capital flow reversals for no fault of theirs they are not slapped with a...   Read More

Economic insecurity caused by lockdowns during the early days of Covid-19 forced many households to rely on government welfare schemes to fulfil their consumption needs. Using data from the June 2020 round of the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey this article shows that few households received both foodgrains and cash transfers particularly in urban areas...   Read More

Whether in Tripura or Haryana there is little interaction between MSMEs and the ITIs. District Industries Centres should step in Developing and implementing a vocational skill development policy for micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is a challenging exercise especially for emerging countries. While imparting of vocational skills should typically be demand-driven MSMEs have neither...   Read More

Gram Swaraj recently got a fillip as Government okayed continuation of Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan One of the unique features of governance in India is that its rural landscape is characterised by a system wherein each village and local unit is responsible for upgrading its own administrative structure and executing its developmental activities. This is...   Read More