By Pranay Kotasthane, Devika Kher, Pavan Srinath, and Aashish Chajjer Download the paper in PDF Financing public health in India is a vital challenge. As a response, the Union government transfers funds to the lower tiers of government, specifically meant...

What is being proposed is a highly complicated structure with four tax rates, in addition to exemption, a low rate on bullion and cesses on demerit goods.

Lack of capacity of the state is not merely a matter of incompetence. It has more to do with ‘special interest group’ politics

By Dr. M Govinda Rao Download the essay in PDF [379 KB] India’s growth story remains highly attractive at a time of fragile global economic recovery, uneven growth and tremendous uncertainty around the global financial and commodity markets. However, taking...

By Dr. M Govinda Rao Download the essay in PDF [442 KB] Given the political inclination to indulge in fiscal profligacy, it is important to ensure calibration of rule based fiscal policy to provide space to conduct monetary policies. Although...

Dr. Govinda Rao, Advisor and Faculty at the Takshashila Institution, delivered a lecture on macroeconomic environment and the need for fiscal and monetary policies to improve this environment, at the Indian Institute of World Culture, Wadia Road on Sunday, 25 September...