Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF containing information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. Such data is extremely useful not only for formulating sh...
Introduction
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) started releasing a detailed daily PDF filled with information on a variety of indicators such as mortality, containment zones, bed capacity, vaccinations, etc. from June 2020. As can be imagined, such data is extremely useful not ...
IDFC Institute's new working paper unearths the extent of Mumbai's congestion, quantifies its economic and environmental costs and provides actionable results for policymakers by identifying chokepoints.
We analysed more than half a billion Uber Movement data points in o...
In this blog post on the Harvard Economics Review, CAFRAL's Sujan Bandyopadhyay and Anmol Agarwal quote Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia and former Visiting Senior Fellow Praveen Chakravarty's work on regional divergence. Excerpts:
"Chakravarty and Dehejia (2017) mark 1991-92 as a ...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in an Open magazine article on the burgeoning India-US trade dispute. Excerpts:
“We have to stop dealing with slogans and clichés and start dealing with realpolitik,” Vivek Dehejia, a professor of economics at...
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute, in conversation with Alyssa Ayres on her new book "Our Time Has Come: How India is Making its Place in the World", in March 2018, in Mumbai.
The Modi government has recently announced a new committee set up to review the Income-tax Act 1961. This Mint editorial argues that this is a very welcome move that will complement the reforms initiated in the indirect taxation system with the rollout of GST and may even give the government fi...
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute was on a panel, "Unlocking the Travel and Tourism Potential of India", at the World Economic Forum India Summit, New Delhi, in October 2017. Other panelists included Jayant Sinha, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Government of India; Cr...
LiveMint carried a piece on the pertinent question of "How much of India is actually urban?" using data from IDFC work on Urbanisation. Excerpts below:
"Under the census definition, 31% of the Indian population lived in urban areas in 2011. But the share of urban population which lives in t...
Visiting Senior Fellow and Resident Senior Fellow, Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia, were quoted in The Economist article for their work on the widening gap between the different states of India.
"[In 1990] India’s three richest large states had incomes just ...
