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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Why Nations Fail: And why India and China don’t fit the story
‘Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson is becoming a must-read for development economists. But this column argues that the central thesis of the book fails to explain two big deve...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 01 February, 2013
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Like parent, like child: Health transmission in developing countries
To what extent is children’s health determined by their mothers’ health? This column analyses three decades’ worth of data on over two million children across 38 developing countries to explore ...
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Sonia Bhalotra
- 28 January, 2013
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Capital controls in India: Did they work?
Are capital controls the right way to manage an economy? This column looks at what we can learn from India’s experience, where capital controls have never been fully dismantled.
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Ila Patnaik Ajay Shah
- 21 January, 2013
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How to motivate India's community workers?
People who work on-the-ground are essential to India’s development effort. But how to get these teachers, health workers and so on to work hard when money is tight? This column argues that there are...
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Nava Ashraf
- 04 January, 2013
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Understanding India's monetary policy
From the outside looking in, it may seem that India’s central bank is making up its own rules, making it difficult to predict the next movements in the interest rate. This column argues that the cen...
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Rajeswari Sengupta Nirvikar Singh
- 21 December, 2012
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What will South Asia look like in 2025?
What will India and the rest of South Asia look like in 2025? This column argues that a growth miracle can quickly turn in to a growth disaster. It asks what can be done today to reshape tomorrow.
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Ejaz Ghani
- 19 December, 2012
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India's five-year plan-what's the big deal?
‘Faster, inclusive, and more sustainable growth’ is the defining motto of India’s latest economic plan. But how will it work? This column outlines the five big ideas in India’s Five-Year Plan.
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Varad Pande
- 17 December, 2012
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For the New Year
Five months ago we launched this portal to start new conversations on issues of vital importance for Indian growth and development. We had hoped that by making serious research accessible to lay peop...
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Ashok Kotwal
- 12 December, 2012
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Himayat - A silent skills revolution in the making
In this Note from the Field, Varad Pande of the Ministry of Rural Development discusses the Himayat programme in Jammu and Kashmir which offers skills-training and a job to unemployed young people in ...
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Varad Pande
- 31 October, 2012
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The political economies of land acquisition
India is in the process of reforming the way that land is bought and sold – a source of heated debate as many blame the current laws for unfairly forcing millions from their homes and livelihoods. T...
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Sanjoy Chakravorty
- 17 October, 2012
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Is economic growth always the best policy?
Is economic growth the best way to reduce poverty, raise life expectancy, and improve people’s health? This column looks at different Indian states over the last 20 years. It argues that governments...
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Arvind Subramanian
- 05 October, 2012
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Developing a Land Acquisition Policy for India
The Land Acquisition Bill is a key piece of legislation under consideration in the Indian Parliament. This column argues that the current policy on compensating landowners, as proposed in the Bill, is...
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Maitreesh Ghatak Dilip Mookherjee
- 05 September, 2012
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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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