Speaking to The Washington Post, Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia explains what Urjit Patel's resignation might mean for the declining health of Indian institutions.
"'We’ve seen this movie before in so many emerging economies,' said Vivek Dehejia, an economist and fellow at the ...
This Express article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"Following a mammoth nine-hour meeting with board directors, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced it will work together with the government with a set of new fiscal strategies...
Vivek Dehejia, a...
This Wall Street Journal article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"As India heads into elections, central-bank technocrats worry that the government may dip into the RBI’s rupee reserves—a rainy-day fund used to shore up public finances—to open the spig...
This Economist article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"If Mr Patel is forced out, it will be an “incalculable disaster”, says Vivek Dehejia of the idfc Institute, a think-tank in Mumbai. For his replacement, “they’d be sure to appoint...
This BBC News article quotes Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia. Excerpts:
"It is a very messy situation. If the bank chief quits, it will shake the confidence of markets, the rupee will plunge further and investors will take money out from India. Nothing good will come out...
Ajay Shah, in this Business Standard article, analyses the principal-agent relationship of the Ministry of Finance and its financial agent, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He proposes that the RBI's indepence as a financial agent would be best achieved by following a "middle ground" in terms o...
Resident Senior Fellow, Vivek Dehejia, is quoted in the Financial Express, commenting on the RBIs move to allow eKYC. He says:
“The movement of some or many of the unbanked into the formal financial sector and the movement of firms from the informal to the formal economy (or, equival...
Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute speaks to the Open Magazine, on the appointment of Dr. Urjit Patel as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the challenges that lie ahead for him.
Dehejia commends the departure from traditional ad-ho...
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...
In a Forbes article, IDFC Chief Economist Indranil Pan pegs GDP rise at 7.7 percent for the current fiscal. Excerpts below:
"... Pan says he is 'cautiously optimistic' about India’s growth story. 'This is the best year for the government to get the house in order. I...
