In this Mint article, Niranjan Rajyadhyaksha, Research Director and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, writes about the growing use of digital data in economic analysis and how it will revolutionise public policy in the coming future...

The issues embedded in Maharashtra’s Economic Survey have a national resonance. It is verily a WhatsApp message for India.

The Economic Survey of 2017-18 was presented recently by Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, who said that he learnt 10 new things while preparing this survey.

The three stars— a ruling party’s Parliament majority, development agenda and low oil prices— may never align again, that is the biggest takeaway from Economic Survey 2018.

The many roles played by cities and some caution on "proprietary cities". 

Why GST is likely to exacerbate the issue of income divergence between Indian states.

With the 12th Plan passing into history when the current fiscal year ends on 31 March, India will, for the first time since the early years of independence, no longer be a planned economy, but a market economy.

In the long run, the government will choose to tax more, if it wishes to spend more. That appetite seems lacking at present.