In conversation with ET Now, Swanand Kelkar of Morgan Stanley Investment Management quotes Research Director and Senior Fellow, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha's recent paper on India's macroeconomic environment. Excerpts:
"Swanand Kelkar: The external side looks pretty okay. If you look at the ...
In this BloombergQuint programme, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha discusses his recent IDFC Institute working paper on Indian macro policy's 2-4-6-8 framework. The paper presents five sets of policy recommendations that can help raise potential growth without putting economic stability at ...
IDFC Institute has developed a new web-tool that allows users to assess the spatial distribution of India’s GDP. This 3D tool is based on 2006 GDP and population data* (more recent data will be added soon) and can be used to understand the variation in economic activity across ...
In this article, Madan Sabnavis, Chief Economist, CARE Ratings talks about the importance of understanding macro economic numbers in the right context in The Hindu Business Line.
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"The GDP numbers that were released for Q2 of the year were quite significant becau...
Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Visiting Fellow, quoted on the cash ban affecting small businesses in India, in an article carried by Consumer and Society. Excerpts below:
"India has over 100 million small firms which are estimated to account for 40% of its economy and approximately 8...
Hindustan Times reports on Narendra Modi's defense of the economic slowdown and steps he will take to ensure growth revives. Modi listed his government’s reformist initiatives (87 reforms across 21 sectors), and pointed to recent data that shows the emergence of green shoots in the economy.
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Is India's economic slowdown a passing phase or the new normal? Praveen Chakravarty, Visiting Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, Sajjid Chinoy, Chief Economist at JPMorgan India, and Ajit Ranade, Chief Economist of the Aditya Birla Group debate the issue. Excerpts:
"Export Hit to Ma...
This Livemint article refers to Resident Senior Fellows, Vivek Dehejia and Praveen Chakravarty's, research on inequality.
"In India, night-lights data has been used to understand the effects of the reorganization of states. In 2000, three new states were created—Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and...
Sajjid Chinoy, in this Livemint opinion piece, elaborates on the two competing economic narratives on India and suggests reformative policies.
The first centres around the improvement in macroeconomic stability, with decreasing CAD and inflation rates, and structur...
Rajya Sabha member, Rajeev Gowda, has an interesting rebuttal to S. Gurumurthy's explanation on GDP growth during the 2004-09 period. He writes:
"In essence, the story that black money induced rising asset prices which led to high GDP growth with no jobs is a phantom one, devoid of any...
