This Mint editorial features Vivek Dehejia and Praveen Chakravarty's research on regional divergence. Excerpts:
"This is not just a snapshot in time. Conventional economic theory dictates that as aggregate prosperity grows, the states should converge economically. This is emphatic...
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in The Guardian's long read on India's 'Billionaire Raj' by James Crabtree. Excerpts:
"Narendra Modi pledged to end a situation in which the country’s ultra-wealthy – sometimes called “Bollygarchs” – appeared to li...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, spoke at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns University on 'State-level Inequality in India: Economics, Politics and Public Policy', on 9 October 2017.
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...
Zia Haq, in his cover story for Outlook, has quoted research findings by from our Economic Divergence Project:
"Trouble is, this stayed static through the liberalisation period. Economists Vivek Dehejia and Praveen Chakravarty of the Mumbai-based IDFC Institute, in a landmark rece...
In this blog post, Branko Milanovic re-visits inequality in India by using income based surveys of Indian population for 2004 and 2011.
"The gap between the slow moving survey mean and much faster changes in per capita GDP was also explained by the failure of NSS to capture top incomes...
