Last month, various political parties released their election manifestos. Manifestos play an important role in the electoral process: apart from promoting political parties' visions, they are crucial signaling devices, shedding light on party priorities and ideologies. What political parties actuall...
This Scroll article quotes an IDFC Institute 2015 article to discuss the effect of holding simultaneous elections at the Legislative Assembly and the Parliamentary level on election outcomes. The article states:
"A 2015 study by the IDFC Institute found “a 77% chance t...
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 Economist article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"If Mr Patel is forced out, it will be an “incalculable disaster”, says Vivek Dehejia of the idfc Institute, a think-tank in Mumbai. For his replacement, “they’d be sure to appoint...
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...
This NewsNation article features former Resident Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty's research on electoral data. Excerpts:
"Another reason is that during elections communalism, casteism, corruption and crony capitalism are at their peak. Frequent elections mean there is no respite...
This Mint article features our Briefing Paper on Political Diversity and Competition in India. Excerpts:
"Pre-poll alliances are widely expected to play a critical role in upcoming state elections and next year’s general elections. These alliances, a reflection of India’s...
David Keohane, in this Financial Times article, reviews Milan Vaishnav's latest book titled, "When Crime Pays, Money and Muscle in Indian Politics" and explains the vertical integration in India's crime-political nexus. Excerpts below:
"As Vaishnav describes it, there was a reliable p...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, is quoted in the Financial Express, commenting on the RBIs move to allow eKYC. He says:
“The movement of some or many of the unbanked into the formal financial sector and the movement of firms from the informal to the formal economy (or, equival...
This Open Magazine article talks about the Modi government's reform challenges beyond the high growth number.
The article quotes Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, who explains the political economy behind government's strategy: “If you have...
