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 Bloomberg Quint article follows the work of the Behavioural Insights Team, founded by the U.K. government in 2010.
"The Team uses behavioural science to make public policies and services more effective. Among its more successful experiments is the use of peer pressure to imp...
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...
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...
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...
