Ashwin MB +, Rajeswari Parasa, Sneha P
Introduction
The strict national lockdown from March 24th disrupted the economy and worsened the pre-existing socio-economic vulnerabilities of the informal workforce. India saw a precipitous rise in unemployment rates - from 8...
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...
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in The Guardian's long read on India's 'Billionaire Raj' by James Crabtree. Excerpts:
"Narendra Modi pledged to end a situation in which the country’s ultra-wealthy – sometimes called “Bollygarchs” – appeared to li...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia spoke on a panel on business reforms at the South Asia Conclave, organised by the Oxford University Press, in New Delhi. Other panelists included T.N. Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard and Kanta Murali, co-editor of the book, Business and Politic...
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute, was part of a panel that discussed "What skills will the workplace of 2030 need and how do we get them?", at GESF 2018, held in Dubai in March 2018. The panel included Neil Carberry, Managing director, people & infrastructure, Conf...
This Mint article quotes Junior Fellow Vaidehi Tandel's paper (with Shirish Patel, Sahil Gandhi, Abhay Pethe and Kabir Agarwal) on rent control. Excerpts:
"In a 2015 paper, Decline Of Rental Housing In India: The Case Of Mumbai, Vaidehi Tandel, Shirish Patel, Sahil Gandhi, Ab...
The NITI Aaoyog has issed a clarification regarding the Ease of Doing Business Report launched on August 28, 2017.
"In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in easing various processes related to doing business. This has been verified by the World Bank... It is important to ...
The Ease of Doing Business Report, due to release on Monday 28th August 2017, is based on a survey done on 3,500 manufacturing firms in 2016. The survey finds that labor regulations are a bigger constraint for labor intensive firms. Citing examples, the survey also says that compared with other...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow, and Vaidehi Tandel, Junior Fellow, talk about the NITI Aayog-IDFC Institute Enterprise Survey at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie in June 2017....
This Market Review Report by Motilal Oswal quotes Deputy Director Pritika Hingorani, Senior Associate Meenaz Munshi, and Associate Rohan Shridhar's work on affordable housing. Excerpts:
"The Economic Survey 2016-17 describes an India on the move. Migration has almost doubled, to a...
