The Centre for Social & Economic Progress (CSEP) has an internship opening for 10 to 16 weeks in the project Fiscal Marksmanship for Indian States under the Growth, Finance and development domain.

About the Project:

This project seeks to review how the Fiscal Marksmanship has been for Indian States for the period 2010-2018. Fiscal marksmanship broadly refers to the accuracy with which governments can forecast fiscal parameters. The existing literature and data indicates that presently, the fiscal marksmanship ratios across Indian States are rather poor. This ultimately has a negative impact on the quality of State expenditure. In this project, we seek to analyse deeply which components of revenue or expenditure is causing poor marksmanship ratios among the states, what is the major cause of such poor marksmanship ratios, and how, looking forward, they can be improved.

About the Role:

As an intern, you will:

• Be part of a collaborative team and make substantive contributions to the project
• Assist with research and data analysis
• Help organise events relating to this study
• Assist in writing the literature review, summary of government reports, project reports

Education/experience required:

• Currently pursuing or completed a bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Economics
• Comfortable with MS-EXCEL (Basic knowledge required)
• Having an interest in Public finance and should be comfortable reading government reports

We require that you submit a cover letter, a writing sample (if any) and resume. Please submit your resume at internship@csep.org and add your cover letter as an attachment when you apply.