Ashwin MB +, Rajeswari Parasa, Sneha P
Introduction
The strict national lockdown from March 24th disrupted the economy and worsened the pre-existing socio-economic vulnerabilities of the informal workforce. India saw a precipitous rise in unemployment rates - from 8...
A new IDFC Institute report on Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India finds that building roads has the largest impact on employment generation for firms involved in agro-allied and services activities. For industrial firms, investing in resolving water supply issues has the greate...
In a recently concluded enterprise survey of 2,500 firms across 18 districts, we asked firms to identify the three main types of infrastructure that had the biggest impact on their business operations. Connectivity via roads was cited as the main infrastructure impediment across the manufacturing, s...
On Bloomberg Quint's Noise to Signal Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute discusses sticky inflation expectations, jobs, exports and other macroeconomy issues with Subir Gokarn, former Deputy Governor at RBI and currently the Executive Director at the International Monetary...
Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian's first interview in Bloomberg Quint after the Q2 GDP numbers, in an exclusive conversation with Praveen Chakravarty, Visiting Senior Fellow, IDFC Institute.
The discussion covered a myriad of topics including, GDP Data, GD...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, has been quoted in a Livemint article on demonitisation impacting employment. Excerpts below:
"It has been pointed out that demonetisation has resulted in the extinguishing of jobs, especially in the informal sector."
"Alongside this los...
The GST Council discusses a four-tier rate structure and agrees on compensation to the loss-incuring states for the first five years of the tax regime. With a peak rate of 26 percent plus cess on ultra-luxury and demerit goods, lower slabs are set at 6, 12 and 18 percent. Read more on...
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In this Mint article, Tadit Kundu says "cities with high population density (like Mumbai) and relatively lower population density (like Patna) should eventually witness equalisation in wages.......however, district-wise data shows otherwise.....big cities, like Mumbai and Delhi, still off...
The 2015 Forbes India Leadership awards featured a debate between IDFC Institute Advisory Board Member Manish Sabharwal, Cyril Shroff, Managing Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Forbes India reports:
"... Mangaldas... presented a well-argued case for big bang reforms...&n...
This Mint article discusses doubts about this claim of India's recovery.
"The first problem is that there is no official data with which to compare the current economic momentum with what happened a few years ago. It is widely known that the government statisticians have moved to a new meth...
