How does monetary policy transmission happen in India?
Central banks leverage monetary policy instruments to control the supply of money in the economy, which in turn influences economic outcomes through various channels. Analysing Indian data from 2001-2...
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Santosh Kumar Dash
Joyal P. Joseph
27 October, 2025
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India at work: Challenges and the road ahead
While India’s economy experienced steady growth over the last 20 years or so, the growth in employment has not kept pace and key challenges remain to the creation of good-quality jobs. In this post,...
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Nalini Gulati
Kanika Mahajan
Anisha Sharma
15 September, 2025
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Why next-generation economic reforms are crucial for reviving investment
While corporate profitability and banks' lending ability have been on the rise for some time, corporate investment remains sluggish. In this post, Gupta and Sachdeva argue that investment levels of In...
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Shishir Gupta
Rishita Sachdeva
11 April, 2025
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Markups and capital misallocation: A trade-off? Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Capital misallocation in India has continuously increased over the past two decades, despite extensive liberalisation. At the same time, the importance of financial frictions for the Indian economy ha...
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Simon Galle
30 June, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Fixit, not Brexit
In a referendum on 23 June, Britain voted for its exit from the European Union. In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, discusses the causes and likely ...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
24 June, 2016
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What does China’s ‘new normal’ mean for India?
China’s new normal – a growth rate of at least 6.5% - has been set as a target in its 13th Five Year Plan. In this article, Sharmila Kantha, Principal Consultant, Confederation of Indian Industry,...
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Sharmila Kantha
17 June, 2016
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Painful spillovers from slowing BRICS growth
A synchronous growth slowdown has hit emerging markets, especially the BRICS, since 2010, with the potential for significant adverse spillovers to the rest of the world. This column estimates that a ...
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Raju Huidrom
Ayhan Kose
Franziska Ohnsorge
08 June, 2016
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Does democracy cause growth?
Many analysts view democracy as a neutral or negative factor for growth. This column discusses new evidence showing that democracy has a robust and sizeable pro-growth effect. It finds that a country ...
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Daron Acemoglu
Suresh Naidu
Pascual Restrepo
James Robinson
03 June, 2016
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Can Governments Increase Revenues By Lowering Taxes? A Study of Competing Policies To Reduce Tax Evasion During House Purchase in India
In the specific context of India, this project studies which of the two tools – the stamp duty or the guidance value – leads to higher truthful reporting of property prices. Using a hedonic model ...
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Venkatesh Panchapagesan
Doddaswamy Ravishankar
Madalasa Venkataraman
30 April, 2016
- IGC Research on India
Why outward FDI should be encouraged
The ‘Make in India’ programme seeks to incentivise global investors to manufacture in India. In this article, Natasha Agarwal, an independent research economist argues that efforts should also be ...
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Natasha Agarwal
22 April, 2016
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Union Budget 2016: Will it support India's economic transformation?
In this year’s Budget speech, the Finance Minister articulated the government’s agenda to ‘Transform India’ through a set of economic reforms framed in terms of ‘nine pillars’ - agricultur...
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Nirvikar Singh
08 March, 2016
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Union Budget 2016: A UPA-III Budget
In this article, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, contends that the Modi government presented a reasonably good United Progressive Alliance (UPA)-III Budget ...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
04 March, 2016
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Union Budget 2016: Focus on reforms and fiscal commitments
The Union Budget 2016-17 was presented by the Finance Minister earlier this week. In this article, Rathin Roy, Director of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, applauds the Budget for ...
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Rathin Roy
03 March, 2016
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Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...
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Gurbachan Singh
29 February, 2016
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Growth, Urbanisation and Rural-Urban Linkages in Bihar
The project aimed to explore the reasons for low urbanization in the state and identify its regional pattern across the State and its economic and social characteristics. The findings of the study ind...
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Nandita Gupta
Abhay Kumar
Shreya Sarawgi
Alakh Sharma
29 February, 2016
- IGC Research on India
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Land in India: Market price vs. fundamental value
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2015, is focused on protecting the few home buyers who can afford to buy homes but does not address the issue of high land prices, which is a very se...
Gurbachan Singh
29 February, 2016
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Land records and titles in India
Land ownership is broadly determined by access to a land title, which protects the rights of the title-holder, and impacts livelihoods, and industrial, economic, and social growth. However, land title...
Prachee Mishra
Roopal Suhag
20 November, 2017
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Understanding the dynamics of the rupee-dollar exchange rate
Since 1993, the Indian rupee (INR) has officially been following a market-determined exchange rate – price is determined by demand for and supply of foreign exchange – with intervention by the Res...
Ila Patnaik
Rajeswari Sengupta
11 October, 2021
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