Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, in this Livemint article, discusses some broad issues that deserve immediate attention in the wake of the currency reform. Shedding light on the economic processes that result from this exogenous shock, Rajadhyaksha cautions against jumping to quick conclusions,...
Resident Senior Fellow Dr. Vivek Dehejia presented a lecture "Where is India Going?" at the Center of Financial and Monetary Studies at LUISS Guido Carli in Rome, on October 18, 2016. LUISS is one of Italy's leading private universities. The talk focussed on the challenges of improving the doing bus...
The GST Council discusses a four-tier rate structure and agrees on compensation to the loss-incuring states for the first five years of the tax regime. With a peak rate of 26 percent plus cess on ultra-luxury and demerit goods, lower slabs are set at 6, 12 and 18 percent. Read more on...
In this blogpost, Renuka Sane, Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute, along with Monika Halan writes on the mis-selling of financial products by banks, emphasising the lack of consumer protection in financial regulation in India. To understand the situation better, Sane and Hala...
Praveen Chakravarty, Visiting Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, recently made a presentation on Infrastructure Financing to policymakers in Delhi. You can click on the below link to download the presentation.
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Watch three of the most influential economists, Arvind Subramanian (Chief Economic Adviser, Government of India), Bibek Debroy (Member, NITI Aayog) and Thomas Piketty (author of the book 'Capital') debate India's economic future. From Income Tax data to increasing inequality to Raghuram R...
IDFC Institute hosted a private roundtable on “Facilitating an Easy Market for Affordable Housing Development in India” with developers, financiers, policy experts, and academics. This Briefing Paper summarises the key points raised, supporting the need for a more rationalised, consistent, ...
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...