In this article in Financial Express, Kadambari Shah and Vibhav Mariwala discuss the significance of state capacity in ensuring the Union budget's allocations are effectively used to achieve its development goals and ensure economic growth.

Through a series of data visualisations, the authors attempt to describe Kerala's COVID-19 trajectory, the state’s policy response and how to assess its pandemic performance. 

Under the guidance of Kalyani Rajan, Strategic Communications specialist, and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, The Indian COVID Alliance (TICA) commissioned a COVID-19 Vaccine Communications & Needs Assessment Study, with the objectives of gaini...

With a vaccine sector valued at ~INR 95 billion and growing at a CAGR of 18%, India is a global leader in vaccine manufacturing and production. Established in 1978, India’s Universal Vaccination Programme (UIP) is the World’s largest public vacci...

In this piece for the Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha examines the importance of a buoyant tax system to ease the battle for resources and help minimize Centre-state mistrust. ...

In this piece for the New Indian Express, Shankkar Aiyar opines on the "orbit shifting opportunity" that has presented itself to India amidst the recent geopolitical developments between the United States and China. ...

Shankkar Aiyar discusses how India has a limited window to rebuild its economy on the opportunities the pandemic has unveiled with much resting on the success of vaccine rollout.

Kadambari Shah and Vibhav Mariwala discuss how state institutions are failing citizens because they were built to control, not govern.

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha writes in Mint that the Indian central bank faces a policy conundrum, and the choices it makes will have profound implications for the economy....

Shankkar Aiyar discusses the failures of past reforms to streamline the Indian state.