Visiting Fellow, Shankkar Aiyar in this The New Indian Express article argues that the tax payer is entitled for a statement on deployment of cess and outcome of achievement since they are asked to part with their money for a specific purpose.  ...

To deliver on the promise of minimum government, maximum governance, the Modi Sarkar must ask the moot question: “Should the government be doing all that it is doing?”

Vivek Dehejia of IDFC Institute shares his reflections on the recent assembly elections in India and what they augur for the governing BJP and the opposition Congress parties.

India needs a new credible opposition.

In this India Spend article, Rithika Kumar and Swapnil Bhandari, Senior Analyst and Associate at IDFC Institute present their analysis of the electoral results in Assam, Kerala, West Bengaland Tamil Nadu. ...

Anti-Incumbency in Assam not related to high voter turnout

Ideas are self-evidently important, but it is often the better story which carries the day.

In this Mint article, Vivek Dehejia, Resident Fellow at IDFC Institute, writes that at the end of his two years as the PM, Narendra Modi should be best described as a pragmatic modernizer of the government’s role in the economy....

IDFC Institute Visiting Fellow Renuka Sane writes in Indian Express: "Pension reform is important. But next time, Centre must put in more rigour."

Dr. Shamika Ravi, Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute, comes up with a dream budget for India highlighting broad budget announcements that would keep India firmly on the path to equitable growth over the next hundred years....