Visiting Senior Fellow, Praveen Chakravarty, gave a lecture on diverging Indian States and GST at a policy dialogue organised by the The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras in collaboration with the Centre for Civil Society on the 18th of August, 2017.
"...the diff...
Visiting Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty and Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia, write for the Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy.
In this paper, they argue that the ‘new’ India demands a drastic shift towards maximum regional autonomy. Policies such as ...
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...
This Livemint opinion piece argues that the "introduction of GST seems to be a mixed bag for the infra sector—predictability and efficiency being the key advantages, while non-inclusion of sub-sectors, higher rate and certain restrictions are negatives."
"GST being a concurrent tax ...
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...
Rajiv Lall, MD & CEO of IDFC Bank, in this ET Now interview, comments on the GST Constitutional Amendment Bill, welcoming the flexibility left with the GST Council.
“...this is a milestone in the development and evolution of the Indian Federation. This is the first...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute is qouted in Soutik Biswas's BBC News article on the complex nature of India's new Goods and Services Tax (GST) reform.
Biswas proposes that this is
"the most significant tax reform since independence for what is no...
In this Quartz article, Gautam Khattar explains why important GST (Good and Services Tax) reform is still stuck in Parliament. Some of the key issues include, a shift in the basis of tax collection from the origin to destination state - which disadvantages large manufacturing states -...
