Seventy-one years after independence, the problem of how to address the country’s vast economic disparities remains

Both across states and across districts within each state, there is a wide, and widening, disparity in economic activity across regions

A narrative of north versus south, them versus us, Centre versus states with splices of rationality riveted with rhetoric has come to occupy centre stage.

Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, spoke at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns University on 'State-level Inequality in India: Economics, Politics and Public Policy', in October 2017....

Visiting Senior Fellow, Praveen Chakravarty, gave a powerful lecture on diverging Indian States and GST at a policy dialogue organised by the The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras in collaboration with the Centre for Civil Soc...

The ‘One Nation’ Fallacy in a ‘New’ India

Zia Haq quotes IDFC Institute's research findings on the sustained income divergence between states in India.