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Getting India’s Electricity Prices “Right”: It’s More...
In this paper, Nikhil Tyagi and Rahul Tongia examine the equilibrium of retail pricing, beginning with the question whether prices are in ...Breaking Down the Gap in DisCom Finances: Explaining the Causes of Missing...
Rajasekhar Deveguptapu and Rahul Tongia comprehensively analyse DisCom finances using a long time series that aims to examine and answer pertinent questions ...Between Binaries: The Coming Together of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit...
From being a malleable concept, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has come to be strictly defined by legislation. Somewhat corresponding to this, the ...Do property rights explain health outcomes of adolescent girls in India?
The study reveals the state of property rights in India and presents an analyses of issues pertaining to security of tenure.Reconciling DisCom ‘stimulus’ and dues: We must look beyond the tip of...
DisComs needs support in the coming months, exacerbated by COVID-19, which has hurt revenues more than the reduction in demand.India’s foreign affairs strategy
India finds itself in an increasingly dangerous world, one that is fragmenting and slowing down economically.Following the money: China Inc’s growing stake in India-China ties
China's total investment in India exceeds an estimated US$26 billion, exceeding official estimates by 25%.Acting East: India in the Indo-Pacific
On January 26, 2018, the 68th anniversary of India becoming a republic, New Delhi hosted the leaders of all 10 member states ...The indigenisation of India’s defence industry
An indigenous defence industry is a vital objective for India given its security environment and strategic objectives. India has a large and ...Survey of India’s Strategic Community
Like every major country, India has a strategic community: a relatively small group of professionals who, in different ways, direct or ...Complexities of integrating Renewable Energy into India’s grid
In 2014, India unilaterally announced plans to quadruple Renewable Energy (RE) to 175 GW by 2022, an ambitious target that required an ...Product space analysis and industrial policy: Identifying potential...
This paper explains the basic concepts of product space analysis and works with the data provided by the Atlas of Economic Complexity ...India’s model bilateral investment treaty: Are we too risk averse?
India’s decision to adopt a new Model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) especially in light of the growing debate on how to reconcile ...Electrifying mobility in India
India’s electric vehicles' (EV) aspirations are steep from where we stand today, but they have sparked remarkable interest and action in policy, ...Newer Challenges for Open Access in Electricity
For the last 15 years or so, introduction of competition has been one of the main aims of reform in the electricity ...Delhi’s household electricity subsidies: High and inefficient
Subsidies in the power sector aren’t new or unique to Delhi. These can play a helpful role in keeping power affordable for ...Challenges, recommendations for meeting 2017 norms for air pollution from...
In this Brookings India IMPACT Series paper, Rahul Tongia and Deborah Seligsohn discuss the challenges for India in meeting the upcoming 2017 ...Paper | Building a Design Economy in India
In this paper, we outline the manner in which design can help promote the Indian economy. We look at the status of ...
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