November 09, 2017
Demonetisation: Manmohan Singh To Modi - Time For Politicking Over, Let’s Rebuild The Economy
Visiting Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, Praveen Chakravarty, interviewed former Prime Minister of India, Shri Manmohan Singh one year after the Modi Government announced demonetisation, in this BloombergQuint article....
September 11, 2017
The ‘3-3-3’ Puzzle and What To Do About It
The ‘3-3-3’ puzzle is nothing but a theory that the three richest states in India are three times as rich as the three poorest states.
August 31, 2017
Lecture by Praveen Chakravarty on diverging Indian States and GST at IIT Madras
Visiting Senior Fellow, Praveen Chakravarty, gave a powerful 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 Soc...
August 17, 2017
India's Tax Reform
The GST Is an Important, Limited First Step
August 11, 2017
The ‘One Nation’ Fallacy in a ‘New’ India
The paper makes a case for greater autonomy of states and argues that a one-size-fits-all model in terms of policy does not work for India's diverse states
July 20, 2017
Dichotomy of the Indian Economy
India's economic narratives and how to fix the plumbing.
July 18, 2017
GST may bring Stability in the Infrastructure Sector
GST will provide much-needed growth for India’s infrastructure.
July 02, 2017
India’s ‘Simplified’ Tax Scheme is Anything but Simple
Twenty-nine states are now working under the same, centralised Goods and Services Tax, but most seem ill-prepared for the tidal wave of economic disorder it seems likely to bring
May 25, 2017
The GST Anti-Profiteering ‘Weapon’
This new ‘weapon’ in the arsenal of the Union government has been designed and launched as part of the Goods and Services Tax.
April 10, 2017
Will the GST Increase Political Fragmentation?
Whether the GST has the potential to exacerbate the growing economic divergence in the country.