The authors in this Hindu BusinessLine article study electoral consequences of candidate skin colour, in Indian politics.
"During elections, typical voters are not well-informed about candidates. As a result, voters typically use shortcuts to make broad judgements about candidates mos...
David Keohane, in this Financial Times article, reviews Milan Vaishnav's latest book titled, "When Crime Pays, Money and Muscle in Indian Politics" and explains the vertical integration in India's crime-political nexus. Excerpts below:
"As Vaishnav describes it, there was a reliable p...
This Livemint article talks about how Vivek Dehejia and Praveen Chakravarty, Senior Fellows at IDFC Institute, have thrown India’s inter-state income disparity into 'sharp relief'. It highlights certain exemplary points from Dehejia and Chakravarty's recent briefing paper on the top...
Zia Mody's "10 Judgements that Changed India", is a compendium of Supreme Court cases that were critical in transforming the Indian democracy and the lives of citizens in India.
Mody’s book is aimed at readers with very little or no legal background. She presents insights into the working...
Praveen Chakravarty recently spoke at the TEDxMDAE event in Mumbai where he busted some common myths about voting patterns in India. Youtube video of his talk below!
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Advisory Board member, Manish Sabharwal writes in this World Bank blog that changing the ways that India’s benefits regimes are funded would be the most impactful way to reform the country’s labour market.
"When people think of labour law reform in India they tend to think of the l...
Rajeev Gowda, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha and National Spokesperson of the Indian National Congress, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Political Economy Dialogues to discuss the outcomes of the present system of election funding in India and ways to reform campaign finance...
In this Quartz article, Raghuram Rajan's explains why corrupt politicians still win elections and how this is a direct consequence of the myriad of problems and shortfalls that exist in the system. Key excepts can be read below:
"Our provision of public goods is unfortunately bias...
China plans an ambitious alternative to grey urban expanses. This City Lab article explains:
"... News reports of fatal floods come as regularly to city dwellers as the annual monsoon season... water has become the nemesis of China’s 680 million urbanites, whose concrete landscape wa...
IDFC Institute launches its Briefing Paper Series with Praveen Chakravarty's paper on the "Impact of Inflation on Electoral Outcomes in India". For many years, it has been established that prices of household commodities play a significant role in impacting voting choices. Praveen tests this hypothe...
