By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi The celebration of National Unity Day is incomplete without remembering the legacy left...
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By Amit Kapoor and Sheen Zutshi Historically, India’s luxury landscape has evolved from the opulence of maharajas to a...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik The Battery as a service programme (BAAS) is a battery leasing program under which...
By Amit Kapoor and Vidhi Tiwari Indian agriculture has long been a central area of focus for a range...
By Amit Kapoor and Nabha Joshi Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize efficiencies across healthcare, finance, transportation,...
By Amit Kapoor & Meenakshi Ajith The transition to renewable energy has been the hallmark of India’s approach to...
By Amit Kapoor and Kartik As India gears towards the target of Viksit Bharat by 2047, the development of the state...
Union Budget 2024: A Step Towards Enhancing India’s Competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Budget, 0By Amit Kapoor and Shivani Kowadker In the lead up to the Union Budget presentation, news and policy circles...
Cities in Crisis: Addressing India’s Urban Climate Emergencies
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, 0By Amit Kapoor and Shrey Tiwari The country’s metropolitan areas witnessed a triple crisis in June and the wider...
By Amit Kapoor and Jessica Duggal Against the backdrop of rising poverty and income inequality, a closer examination of...
By Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In the midst of June, Delhi is sweltering under an unprecedented...
by AMIT Kapoor and Meenakshi Ajith NDA 3.0 has positioned itself with ambitious pledges to revitalise the Indian economy....
By Amit Kapoor & Meenakshi Ajith Leveraging Global Value Chains: A Recipe for Propelling India’s Manufacturing sector for Inclusive...
Semiconductors to Information Warfare: The Comprehensive Reshaping of Global Dynamics
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Dr. Amit Kapoor & Jae Yu In the evolving landscape of global power dynamics, a fundamental transformation is...
By Amit Kapoor and Arman Sharma Developing new drugs is a challenging endeavour. It is a process that requires...
By Amit Kapoor and Devansh Sharma Leaders of businesses, government, and institutions all have a stake and a crucial...
Thirst for Change – Advancing Urban Water Security in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0By Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha In the heart of Bengaluru, once celebrated as the City of...
Process Innovation: India’s Key to Global Healthcare Transformation
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Arman Sharma & Amit Kapoor India’s healthcare sector is one of the fastest-growing in the world. Already the...
By Devansh Sharma and Amit Kapoor Urban areas have been epicenters of economic activity since the dawn of humanity....
India’s Defense Procurement Dilemma: Navigating the Proprietary and Open Standards Divide
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor & Jae Yu The strategic contours of international defense procurement shape national security policies and geopolitical...
By Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha The reluctance to shift from the status quo, especially when it seems beneficial...
Resolution for a New India – Reinvigorating the Fight Against Poverty and Inequality
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Inequality, 0Amit Kapoor and Jessica Duggal “More and more it is being realised in other parts of the world that...
Resolution for a New India – Reinvigorating the Fight Against Poverty and Inequality
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Inequality, 0Amit Kapoor and Jessica Duggal “More and more it is being realised in other parts of the world that...
Preparing for the Future of Work: Key Achievements in India’s G20 Presidency
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, G20, 0By Amit Kapoor and Amitabh Kant The ongoing transformation of our world is undeniable, driven by a complex interplay...
Transition to Sustainability: Economic Implications of Green Energy Adoption in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Suryansh Chalamalasetty India’s energy mix has traditionally been dominated by coal. Thermal energy is generated...
Transition to Sustainability: Economic Implications of Green Energy Adoption in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0By Amit Kapoor and Suryansh Chalamalasetty India’s energy mix has traditionally been dominated by coal. Thermal energy is generated...
Sustainable Agriculture for the Future: Insights from India’s G20
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, G20, 0Amit Kapoor and Hari Menon India’s concerted efforts towards achieving zero hunger and prioritising food security through social protection...
Powers must be kept in check, reforms must be collaborative and citizens should be at the core On 9...
Urban Density, FSI, and the Quest for Sustainable Indian Cities
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0By Dr. Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha Urban density, the concentration of people within a specific urban...
Enhancing Access and Affordability of Nutritious Food through Rice Fortification in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Ensuring access to proper nutrition is a crucial component of public health and a fundamental role of the welfare...
by Amit Kapoor, Shivani Kowadker and Vanshchika Kant ‘Inclusive, sustainable and resilient growth’ has emerged as an important theme...
How can the G20 reinvent green jobs in emerging economies? Rebuilding our economies means rethinking about the future. The...
Enhancing Access & Affordability Of Nutritious Food Through Rice Fortification In India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Amit Kapoor and Mukul Anand Ensuring access to proper nutrition is a crucial component of public health and a...
A new development paradigm; more synergies and less trade-offs
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, G20, 0Conventional growth models are consumption-driven, supported by a robust manufacturing sector. The world’s emerging economies, including India, need an...
Amit Kapoor and Divyansh Sahai It is widely regarded that technological progress, especially in cities which have now become...
An Unfinished Journey Towards Urban Decentralization
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha The discipline of routine policy outcome assessment is not a matter of...
Competitive Jobs and a Developmental Pathway
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0Several economies have been built on the manufacturing sector. Many economies are driven solely on the basis of their...
Amit Kapoor & Amitabh Kant Entrepreneurship encourages innovation and enables an economy to make a quantum leap in terms...
Echoes of Bleak House: Confronting India’s Waste Management Crisis
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor and Aditya Sinha In Charles Dickens’ classic novel “Bleak House,” published in 1853, he masterfully...
Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Drawing inspiration from Charles Dickens’ “Hard Times,” which vividly portrays the struggles faced by...
Foundational learning for all: Leave no Language behind
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, FLN2023, 0The foundation of basic education is Language; it is a critical determinant of foundational learning because a learner’s competence...
India in an Evolving World: Challenges and Opportunities
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0“Change is the only constant’ is one of the phrases perceived as a cliché in today’s times. The fact...
Sustainability has moved beyond being a trend to a policy imperative. Historically unviable consumption levels and energy usage patterns...
India, Clusters and the Case for Uniform Growth
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0India, Clusters and the Case for Uniform Growth One of the major issues in policy has always been what...
A sliver of hope materialized when The World Health Organisation’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared at a media...
Unblocking India’s Policy Impact Challenge
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0Amit Kapoor, Amitabh Kant and Christian Ketels India’s economic history is rich with instances of policy interventions which transformed...
State of Municipal Finances Amit Kapoor, Bibek Debroy & Aditya Sinha “From wealth (kosa) comes the power of the Government (danda).”...
Where Does India’s Competitiveness Challenge Lie?
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, competitiveness, India@100, 0The secret is to comprehend where they are required and where resource allocation in an economy is best served...
India’s Rise and Its Global Implications
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, India@100, 0India’s Rise and its Global Implications The most common definition of globalisation follows that the world is getting excessively...
Often sprouting of slums is seen as an inevitable consequence of rapid urbanisation. But it is primarily market and...
A Promising Panel: Facilitating Free Trade Agreements At a time when international trade is expected to slow down in...
One of the most highlighted concerns regarding the television measurement rating is the inability of the rating system to...
The Curious Case of Census Towns: The Case for Integrated Development of Rural and Urban Areas
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Urbanisation, 0Bibek Debroy, Amit Kapoor & Aditya Sinha Literature on service delivery suggests that a state is incapable of delivering...
Antifragile Ecosystem: A road to sustainable export growth for India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, EPI2021, 0The COVID-19 Pandemic and other global events of significance, such as the Suez canal blockage and Semiconductor shortage, halted...
Bibek Debroy, Aditya Sinha & Amit Kapoor Throughout the 20th century, modern states have pursued what political scientist, James Scott,...
Multidimensional inequality aims to assess the cause and nature of inequalities, arguing that deprivation of one kind leaves a...
An Enabling Ecosystem towards formalization for enterprises The subject of transitioning from informality to formality continues to be discussed...
Making Our Cities Smart and Sustainable: Revisiting India’s Smart City Mission
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, 0Making Our Cities Smart and Sustainable: Revisiting India’s Smart City Mission The constant metamorphosis of urban spaces in India...
India and its Income Inequality In the last two years of the pandemic, the world has been a witness...
The Indian middle class has always occupied a space of intrigue about its composition and characteristics. Viewed with both...
From Paper to Field: MGNREGS as the face of India’s Social Protection System
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Inequality, 0As per ILO’s World Social Protection Report 2020-22, 8.8% of global working hours were lost in 2020, equivalent to...
Looking at the GEP of January 2021, the World Bank Open Data predicted that the number of people living...
The Economic Impact of Early Childhood Education in India
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Education, FLN, 0We must capitalize on it providing rich investments in early education, which will turn them into a huge pool...
Elderly well-being: Index assesses India’s response to ageing
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Elderly, 0Elderly well-being: Index assesses India’s response to ageing As our lifestyles transform due to social, economic and other factors,...
Regulating the gig economy In the recent past, the term “gig economy” has become a buzzword in the business...
It’s Time To Rethink Your Business Model The world is undergoing the fourth industrial revolution, where technological breakthroughs are...
Addressing India’s mental health: We need to begin with adolescents
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, 0Addressing India’s mental health: We need to begin with adolescents The Covid-19 pandemic has been devastating on all fronts....
The peculiar case of India’s declining female labour force As economies around the world have grown and societies progressed,...
The tragedy of UP and Bihar along the banks of Ganga Lasting for over a year now, the pandemic...
Family planning: The next step The world, including India, has made huge strides in developmental progress over the last...
Municipal Performance Index 2020: Putting ULBs at the centre of urban development
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Cities, MPI, MPI2020, 0Municipal Performance Index 2020: Putting ULBs at the centre of urban development Since the 74th Amendment Act gave constitutional recognition...
Re-imagining governance with Aspirational Districts Programme
amitkapoor, , ADP, Arthashastra, Articles, 0Re-imagining governance with Aspirational Districts Programme In over seven decades of its democratic journey, India has progressed by leaps...
Why India’s Education Investment Should Prioritise Secondary Education
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Education, 0Why India’s Education Investment Should Prioritise Secondary Education To optimally leverage education for achieving the desired results, policymakers need...
Creating organizational agility in a post-pandemic market
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Covid 19, 0Creating organizational agility in a post-pandemic market The onset of the fourth industrial revolution has brought with it the...
Role of technology in tackling corruption After years of efforts to eliminate corruption, whether through policy interventions or through...
The major urban development programmes being implemented are Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), Swachh Bharat Mission...
US Election and America’s Deep Divide The high-stakes US election that concluded with the victory of Democrat candidate Joe Bidenyet...
How India Became Self-Sufficient In PPE India was able to realise the vision of AatmaNirbhar Bharat, of not only...
Leveraging AI for equitable growth The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from industries that were...
Aspirational Districts Programme: A shift from traditional governance approaches
amitkapoor, , ADP, Arthashastra, Articles, 0Aspirational Districts Programme: A shift from traditional governance approaches The focus of policy and governance has primarily been on...
Export-led growth: India’s path to economic recovery
amitkapoor, , Arthashastra, Articles, Articles, Export Preparedness, 0Export-led growth: India’s path to economic recovery The global economy was already on shaky grounds with high debt-fuelled growth...
Rebuilding Indian Economy This year, Independence Day is a quiet affair and just another day of rising COVID-19 cases....
The disconnect between Stock Markets and Real Economy Despite the high unemployment levels, a possible economic contraction in the...
Role of Equality in Pandemics Like many other natural disasters and global epidemics, the Covid-19 pandemic also does not...
The Covid-19 pandemic has awakened us to the rising inequality around the world that economists have long been warning...
Discerning the Future The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated some of the major trends that had already started to shake...
Addressing the COVID fallout Over the last few decades, the world has made tremendous progress in lifting people out...
A New Global Order Every aspect of human life, from health to the economic system, is affected by the...
Does Inequality Matter? Inequality is an inevitable consequence of economic growth. The challenge is to ascertain the level at...
Innovation is an idea that is often misunderstood. Innovation does not necessarily mean invention. It can also be doing...
During the seven decades of independence, India’s relationship with the United States has always been complicated. Before the new...
Breaking India’s Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits with the country producing over ninety different types...
Rethinking India’s Growth Paradigm India grew at 4.5 percent in the last quarter as per the recently released statistics....
Asia’s Second Coming For the majority of human history, Asia has been the economic powerhouse of the world. Prior...
The wave of resentment The world today is witnessing a pattern of resentment with multiple outbreaks taking place across...
The Asian Divergence Back in October 1949, when India was framing its constitution that would make it a democratic...
The need of humans to develop at the fastest pace and surpass all its competitors, has led to indiscriminate...
The diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan are at a new low with Pakistan trying to drum up international...
Climate Change and Rising Inequality across Countries The “war on nature must end”, appealed the sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg as...
Fixing the Economic Slowdown The economy is facing a slowdown and is evident with growth slipping to a five-year...