Findings of the crime victimisation survey (SATARC) conducted by IDFC Institute, mentioned in this Business Standard article by Ajay Shah. Excerpts below:
"Crime is deterred by the probability of getting caught. For one case — theft in New Delhi — we estimate the probability o...
Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Visiting Fellow, quoted on the cash ban affecting small businesses in India, in an article carried by Consumer and Society. Excerpts below:
"India has over 100 million small firms which are estimated to account for 40% of its economy and approximately 8...
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...
Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues on Political Economy to discuss designing robust RCT studies and complex government programmes, based on his co-authored Working Paper, "...
