Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Resident Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted in this livemint piece on the viability of issuing municipal bonds.
He states “Bonds are not viable without improving revenue generation first. Investors would need certainty that their money would be paid back."&nbs...
In a recent article in the Indian Express, Bibek Debroy discussed some of the problems with the way urban and rural is defined in India and the implications these definitions have for public goods and service delivery. Debroy pointed to the fact that rural is a residual category,...