Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia's article on economic divergence between the rich and poor states in India, gets cited in the Entry Tax Case judgement by Justice Bhanumathi.
"India is the only large country in the world today that is experiencing an economic divergence among its State...
In this Indian Express article, Bibek Debroy, explains some of the reasons why India's performance in cross border trade as per the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report is poor.
"The logistics story isn’t that good. Broadly, major problems are too many unorganised and unregistered pla...
This post in Livemint, while lauding Gurgaon for achiving "economist Edward Glaeser’s contention that cities are the ideal form of modern civilization", laments "the chaos created last week by the monsoon ... [as] a warning of what happens when the state abandons its role of shaping and ...
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, "...
China plans an ambitious alternative to grey urban expanses. This City Lab article explains:
"... News reports of fatal floods come as regularly to city dwellers as the annual monsoon season... water has become the nemesis of China’s 680 million urbanites, whose concrete landscape wa...
A Corporate entity won the village panchayat election held in India defeating mainstream BJP and Congress parties.
Local garment manufacturer, the Anna-Kitex Group of Companies, is one of the largest private sector employers in the State of Kerala. In the recent village panchayat polls held...
Residents of nine villages in Haryana's Sirsa district funded a 250 foot long, 14 foot wide bride over a river so that they could take their farm produce to nearby areas faster. This Economic Times article reports that work began on the bridge in 2014, and a 25-member committee supervising...
