This Open Magazine article talks about the Modi government's reform challenges beyond the high growth number.
The article quotes Vivek Dehejia, Resident Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, who explains the political economy behind government's strategy: “If you have...
In this Quartz article, Gautam Khattar explains why important GST (Good and Services Tax) reform is still stuck in Parliament. Some of the key issues include, a shift in the basis of tax collection from the origin to destination state - which disadvantages large manufacturing states -...
Resident Fellow Vivek Dehejia gave a special invited lecture on "Economic Reforms in India in the Narendra Modi Era" at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC on December 4, 2105. The talk was followed by a lively Q&A with some of the premier India policy ex...
Rupa Subramanya writes in Foreign Policy- "Roughly 600 million Indians are farmers -- the majority of whom would happily give it up for another job. So why is the Congress party so determined to keep them as peasants?"
She casts the ongoing debate about the Land Acquisition Bill in terms of th...
