In an interview with Shankkar Aiyar, as a part of IDFC Institute’s Artha Dialogues 2019, Rajiv Kumar discusses the structural deficiencies in the financial sector which impede its ability to revive growth. Excerpts below:
"The IL&FS crisis that emerged in August 2018 led to seve...
Centre for Civil Society's concept note on Ease of Doing Business cites IDFC Institute's enterprise survey. Excerpts:
"Each year DIPP, NITI Aayog and the World Bank together assess the progress made by states against ease of doing business action items set the previous year. The ...
Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute interviews Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog for BloombergQuint. In the interview the VC stresses the need to improve business and agriculture to make India globally competitive. On stimulating the economy, Kumar notes...
IDFC Institute work was mentioned in a DNA article relating to NITI Aayog's proposal to start 2-phase Lok Sabha polls from 2024.
"The authors of this study analysed electoral data for four rounds of Lok Sabha elections – 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014, and the states whose elections coincided...
The NITI Aaoyog has issed a clarification regarding the Ease of Doing Business Report launched on August 28, 2017.
"In recent years, there has been tremendous progress in easing various processes related to doing business. This has been verified by the World Bank... It is important to ...
The Ease of Doing Business Report, due to release on Monday 28th August 2017, is based on a survey done on 3,500 manufacturing firms in 2016. The survey finds that labor regulations are a bigger constraint for labor intensive firms. Citing examples, the survey also says that compared with other...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow, and Vaidehi Tandel, Junior Fellow, talk about the NITI Aayog-IDFC Institute Enterprise Survey at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie in June 2017....
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Fellow at the IDFC institute was invited to a meeting of experts, held by the Prime Minister, to map out the future economic plan.
"The meeting was also attended by the finance minister Arun Jaitley, all his department secretaries, other secretaries of departmen...
In this Indian Express article, Dr. Arvind Panagariaya, Vice Chairman, NITI Ayog reflects on the economic reforms initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA Government durings its two years in office. The article opines that "substantial progress progress has been made tow...
In this Article, Pranay Kotasthane of Takshashila Institution says that with the increasing trend of consolidation of centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) during last three budgets, states now "have a better idea of the fiscal space available to them and ar...
