Speaking to The Washington Post, Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia explains what Urjit Patel's resignation might mean for the declining health of Indian institutions.
"'We’ve seen this movie before in so many emerging economies,' said Vivek Dehejia, an economist and fellow at the ...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, is quoted in the Financial Express, commenting on the RBIs move to allow eKYC. He says:
“The movement of some or many of the unbanked into the formal financial sector and the movement of firms from the informal to the formal economy (or, equival...
In this blog post, Branko Milanovic re-visits inequality in India by using income based surveys of Indian population for 2004 and 2011.
"The gap between the slow moving survey mean and much faster changes in per capita GDP was also explained by the failure of NSS to capture top incomes...
Raghuram Rajan makes a critical point that lies at the heart of IDFC Institute's work - that while policy making is easy, getting political acceptance for implementation is the harder part. Read the Economic Times article here. ...
Shout out to everyone in the DC area! Visiting Fellow in Political Economy, Vivek Dehejia will be a member of a distinguished panel on "Modinomics at Two", moderated by Sadanand Dhume with Milan Vaishnav Derek Scissors and Kalpana Kochhar at the American Enterprise Inst...
Vivek Dehejia weighs in on Dani Rodrik's new book:
Dani Rodrik's "Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science" (Norton, 2015) is a fun and instructive little book on the use -- and mis-use -- of economic models by economists, policy makers, and polic...
This Mint article discusses doubts about this claim of India's recovery.
"The first problem is that there is no official data with which to compare the current economic momentum with what happened a few years ago. It is widely known that the government statisticians have moved to a new meth...
In a display of the extent of unemployment and underemployment in India, over 75,000 applications were received for 30 available peon positions in the Directorate of Economics and Statistics of the Chhattisgarh government. The eligibility criterion was completing Class V, but engineers and post...
In a recent paper, Dr. Milan Vaishnav, Associate in the South Asia Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, examines Indian voter behaviour, a topic he also recently discussed in an IDFC-U discussion on "New Rules for Indian Politics"?
In the paper he writes:
"The Bhara...
