In this article, Shruti Rajagopalan, Fellow, Classical Liberal Institute, New York University School of Law writes about the importance of freeing up state capacity to improve efficiency in government in Mint.
Excerpts:
"Almost all of India’s governance problems ca...
Gurucharan Das in this Times of India peice quotes the IDFC Enterprise Survey to state that the Modi government has progressed on implementing the reforms agenda.
He states " India has risen 30 places in the World Bank’s global ranking in the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB). More signi...
This Bloomberg Quint article follows the work of the Behavioural Insights Team, founded by the U.K. government in 2010.
"The Team uses behavioural science to make public policies and services more effective. Among its more successful experiments is the use of peer pressure to imp...
As the Narendra Modi government completed three years at the helm, Shuarya Doval spoke to BloombergQuint in an interview on the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Dialogues 2017 conference about his views their performance in:
Less government, more governance
Reforming the bureaucracy
Bad ...
This Livemint article gives reasons in support of the idea that "In a 21st century economy, a quarter century after liberalisation ... the need for specialised skills and knowledge to inform policy-making and administration is more important than ever."
"...the civil services as they exist ...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Fellow at the IDFC institute was invited to a meeting of experts, held by the Prime Minister, to map out the future economic plan.
"The meeting was also attended by the finance minister Arun Jaitley, all his department secretaries, other secretaries of departmen...
In this Indian Express article, Bibek Debroy, explains some of the reasons why India's performance in cross border trade as per the World Bank Ease of Doing Business report is poor.
"The logistics story isn’t that good. Broadly, major problems are too many unorganised and unregistered pla...
In this Idea's for India column, Visiting Fellow Mudit Kapoor, Senior Associate Vaidehi Tandel and Consulting Senior Associate Komal Hiranandani, argue that alternative definitions of 'urban' are better suited than the administrative definition used by the government to determine poli...
This Livemint article talks about how Vivek Dehejia and Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Fellows at IDFC Institute, have thrown India’s inter-state income disparity into 'sharp relief'. It highlights certain exemplary points from Dehejia and Chakravarty's recent briefing paper on the top...
This post in Livemint, argues that the challenges posed by urban sprawl can be better addressed by an institutional framework that establishes multi-scale governance and a policy approach that prioritizes the provision of urban amenities in peri-urban areas. Excerpt below
"...As I...
