It will be a slow process and the Centre may have to take the lead by increasing infrastructure investment to boost tourism.

The research on Palanpur tells us that thick data from ethnographic or microeconomic studies can also tell policymakers a lot

Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, quotes the NITI Aayog-IDFC Institute joint Enterprise survey on the ease of doing business and its importance to a country's economy.

Whether the GST has the potential to exacerbate the growing economic divergence in the country.

Mihir Sharma asks: "Why is it that so many of India’s cities, which could be locations for the dissolution of the many barriers that divide us, instead replicate and strengthen them?"; cites IDFC Institute research

IDFC Institute CEO Reuben Abraham and Visiting Fellow Mudit Kapoor write in Mint: "The story of poverty reduction in Andhra Pradesh is about two chief ministers with vision and execution skills."...

IDFC Institute CEO Reuben Abraham and Atanu Dey write in Mint: "Clearly, anyone who lives in the average Indian village and has access to information and money would like to leave for towns and cities."...