On the latest episode of the Grand Tamasha, an Indian politics podcast co-produced by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and hosted by political scientist Milan Vaishnav, IDFC Institute Research Director and Senior Fellow Niranjan Rajadhyaksha provides a big picture assessment of Modi's ...
This Wall Street Journal article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"As India heads into elections, central-bank technocrats worry that the government may dip into the RBI’s rupee reserves—a rainy-day fund used to shore up public finances—to open the spig...
This BBC News article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"It is a very messy situation. If the bank chief quits, it will shake the confidence of markets, the rupee will plunge further and investors will take money out from India. Nothing good will come out...
As the world's fastest-growing major economy with a large, young, and intelligent workforce, India is often posited as an emerging superpower. With rapidly developing private sector industries, especially its technology sector, and progressive regulatory policies, India is attracting larger capital ...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in a Financial Times article on how Narendra Modi is trying to shore up his flagging support among farmers, before next year's election. Excerpts:
"It is the triumph of populism over good economics,â...
Hindustan Times reports on Narendra Modi's defense of the economic slowdown and steps he will take to ensure growth revives. Modi listed his government’s reformist initiatives (87 reforms across 21 sectors), and pointed to recent data that shows the emergence of green shoots in the economy.
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Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute interviews Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog for BloombergQuint. In the interview the VC stresses the need to improve business and agriculture to make India globally competitive. On stimulating the economy, Kumar notes...
Sajjid Chinoy, in this Livemint opinion piece, elaborates on the two competing economic narratives on India and suggests reformative policies.
The first centres around the improvement in macroeconomic stability, with decreasing CAD and inflation rates, and structur...
In this Indian Express article, Bibek Debroy, explains some of the reasons why India's performance in cross border trade as per the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report is poor.
"The logistics story isn’t that good. Broadly, major problems are too many unorganised and unregistered pla...
Montek S. Ahluwalia, in this Livemint article, explains why demonetisation is only a piece of the puzzle to tackle corruption and black money, and is likely to have an adverse effect on GDP and low-end employment. Moreover, Ahluwalia advises several steps to significantly improve the proce...
