27 October, 2025How 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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What impedes SMEs from joining Asian supply chains?
While Small and Medium Enterprises play a significant role in job creation at the country level in Asia, they are underrepresented in Asian supply chains. This column analyses data from 5,900 manufac...
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Ganeshan Wignaraja
- 01 September, 2014
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Is the rupee fairly valued?
Is the rupee fairly valued, and should the RBI allow it to appreciate beyond its current rate? This column analyses new World Bank data and finds that the rupee is persistently undervalued by 30% or ...
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Martin Kessler Arvind Subramanian
- 27 August, 2014
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Goods and Services Tax in India: Challenges and prospects
The Finance Ministry recently announced that the Goods and Services Tax will soon be a reality. In this article, M. Govinda Rao – member of the 14th Finance Commission – discusses the challenges ...
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M. Govinda Rao
- 25 August, 2014
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The new plan body must have a certain oomph
PM Modi has announced that his government plans to scrap the six-decade old Planning Commission and replace it with a more contemporary think tank. In this article, Abhijit Banerjee outlines the vari...
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Abhijit Banerjee
- 21 August, 2014
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Investment in Pakistan: Prospects and challenges for India
With the growing importance of India as a leading source of FDI in South Asia, and Pakistan’s liberal investment policies, there is great potential for Pakistan to attract FDI from India. This colu...
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Samridhi Bimal
- 21 July, 2014
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Modi's first Budget for India: Disappointing but retrievable
In this article, Arvind Subramanian contends that while Modi’s first Budget was good on vision, it fell short in terms of fiscal adjustment, budgetary transparency and credibility, and specificity ...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 15 July, 2014
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Two views on the Budget
The Modi government’s first Budget has received a mixed response. Eswar Prasad and Bharat Ramaswami present two distinct views on the Budget. While Prasad is of the opinion that the Budget hits the...
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Eswar Prasad Bharat Ramaswami
- 12 July, 2014
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Keys to successful reform in India
The new Indian government’s first budget - due to be unveiled this week – will be an important indicator of how forcefully the new PM intends to translate his mandate of putting India’s economy...
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Eswar Prasad
- 09 July, 2014
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The Jaitley Budget: Planning for crisis
El Nino can potentially derail the best-laid plans of the new government in India. The article contends that the finance minister would do well to plan his first Budget by attaching a reasonable prob...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 23 June, 2014
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The Goods and Services Tax: Light at the end of the tunnel?
As the Goods and Services Tax is inching towards implementation, a major overhaul of the Indian tax system has also been in progress. This article discusses three key strengths of the ongoing process...
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Nirvikar Singh
- 18 June, 2014
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An economic roadmap for India
With a new government at the Centre, there is an expectation of a revival of growth of the Indian economy. This article contends that India can return to the path of sustainable growth by investing i...
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Iqbal Dhaliwal Gita Gopinath
- 30 May, 2014
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Reversing premature de-industrialisation in India
In countries across the world, de-industrialisation is taking place earlier in the development process. This column analyses how India fares in this regard. It finds that for most Indian states, the ...
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Amrit Amirapu Arvind Subramanian
- 26 May, 2014
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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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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...
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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...
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