A new IDFC Institute report on Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India finds that building roads has the largest impact on employment generation for firms involved in agro-allied and services activities. For industrial firms, investing in resolving water supply issues has the greate...
In a recently concluded enterprise survey of 2,500 firms across 18 districts, we asked firms to identify the three main types of infrastructure that had the biggest impact on their business operations. Connectivity via roads was cited as the main infrastructure impediment across the manufacturing, s...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, has been quoted in a Livemint article on demonitisation impacting employment. Excerpts below:
"It has been pointed out that demonetisation has resulted in the extinguishing of jobs, especially in the informal sector."
"Alongside this los...
As the Narendra Modi government completed three years at the helm, Shuarya Doval spoke to BloombergQuint in an interview on the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues 2017 conference about his views their performance in:
Less government, more governance
Reforming the bureaucracy
Bad ...
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...
This Economist article explains why "'universal basic income', an unconditional government payment given to all citizens, as a supplement to or replacement for wages" is basically flawed.
"Since 2000 economic growth across the rich world has failed to generate decent pay increases for ...
As part of its transparency efforts, the government has made complaints related to the flagship rural NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee) scheme available online. The actual text of complaints is available, along with information on pending complaints and the level of government that is comp...
