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Demystifying the Climate Benefit of EV Transition in India
Battery-driven electric vehicles (EVs) hold promise for decarbonising India’s rapidly growing road transport sector. However, achieving significant emission reductions through widespread EV ...
Green Electricity Tariffs: Pricing and Other Challenges
The Ministry of Power has notified a formula for “green tariffs” for large (greater than 100 kW) electricity consumers to encourage green ...
International Experience with Distribution Ownership Options in Developing...
This paper analyses the performance of the electricity distribution sector in developing countries under different ownership models.Taxation Alternatives for India’s Energy Transition – ESAM...
This study explores how replacing current fossil fuel taxes with alternative taxation options—such as carbon taxes, user taxes, and goods and services ...Health Insurance Access and Disease Profile for Women in India
This paper explores the evolving burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among women in India and assesses the alignment between disease prevalence and ...
Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the Numbers Reveal
PMAY-U, India's largest urban housing programme, has sanctioned 11.9 million houses since 2015, but faces challenges including poor coverage of slum households ...
Evolution of the Healthcare Policy Framework in India
This paper reviews India's healthcare policy evolution, revealing progress and persistent challenges, particularly in public health spending and rural-urban disparities.
Strengthening Primary Care in India
This paper identifies some of the key gaps in policy design and implementation and reflects on the key insights from comparable countries, ...Fiscal Transfers from the Union to States and Healthcare in India
Janak Raj, Rahul Ranjan, Vrinda Gupta and Aakanksha Shrawan assess the role of fiscal transfers from the Union government compared to States’ ...Projecting Critical Minerals Need for India’s Energy Transition: How...
This paper estimates the mineral requirements to manufacture the clean energy technologies needed for India to meet its climate action commitments.Urban Health: Slipping Through the Cracks
This paper by Indrani Gupta and Alok Kumar Singh attempts to bring out the challenges of policymaking in the context of urban ...Federal Financing of Health: Implications for Health System Capacity and...
This paper explores the evolving nature of federal financing for health, including the increase in union transfers through Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs) ...A Medium-Term Strategy for Transitioning to Net Zero by 2070
This paper assesses the feasibility of India achieving its stated goal of net zero by 2070 and presents a medium-term strategy for ...Beyond the Coastline: India’s Land Connectivity Options around the Bay...
This paper argues that India must prioritise the development of multimodal transportation infrastructure beyond coastal areas to bridge the current gap between ...Rethinking Franchisee Efficacy in India’s Power Sector: A Critique...
Considering experiences across various states, the paper advises caution in prescribing the IBDF model as a “standard” policy solution for loss reduction. ...Crossroads of Power: Strategic Aspects of India’s Economic Relations...
This study reviews the strategic aspects and related ramifications of existing and potential surface trading routes between India and the three South ...Riding the Tracks of Time: Indian Railways – An Unfinished Revolution
In this paper, Jaimini Bhagwati and Shalini Chauhan trace the legacy of India's railway system, its expansive growth, and ongoing challenges.Structural Reforms to Improve Regulation of Indian Electricity...
Daljit Singh's working paper examines the regulatory framework of the Indian power sector, often criticised for contributing to the financial strain of ...Interlinkages Between Economic Growth and Human Development in India: A...
India must significantly increase its public spending on health and education, and ensure its effective targeting. This would reduce people’s out-of-pocket expenses, ...Compensating for the Fiscal Loss in India’s Energy Transition
The study argues for the need to consider multiple factors, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, institutional considerations, and the possibility of reducing expenditures ...Assessing the Impact of CBAM on EITE Industries in India
This research specifically focuses on the uncertainties surrounding the potential impact of CBAM on trade-exposed sectors with high energy intensity, particularly in ...A Report on Voluntary Health Insurance in India: A Bridge Towards...
Madhurima Nundy and Pankhuri Bhatt's paper presents a detailed review and analysis of India’s health insurance landscape, with a focus on voluntary ...House Prices in India: How High, and for How Long?
Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Annie George shed light on the state and dynamics of house prices in India by leveraging a ...On India’s Electricity Consumption
Laveesh Bhandari and Aasheerwad Dwivedi study growth in electricity consumption, the key factors affecting it, and its link with economic activity.CSEP Sustainable Mining Attractiveness Index (SMAI)
The paper highlights the economic importance of mining activities and the need to be environmentally responsible and safeguard the welfare and livelihoods ...Understanding Time-of-Day and Seasonal Variations in Supply and Demand for...
Rahul Tongia, Aarushi Dave and Utkarsh Dalal study the impacts of times-of-day and seasons on the different types of fuels for generation ...Viability of Jharkhand’s Electricity Distribution: Distorted by...
Nikhil Tyagi and Rahul Tongia's paper attempts to examine the structure and legacy of electricity distribution in the state with a lens to ...Harnessing Private Capital for Global Public Goods: Issues, Challenges and...
Gulzar Natarajan and V Anantha Nageswaran make the case that poverty alleviation, growth, and climate-related transition, which require both public and private ...Non-Price Policies for Addressing Climate Change: The Global Experience
Renu Kohli, Honey Karun and Saumya analyse the non-price policy measures that aim to lower carbon emissions across the G20 countries.Medical Education in India: A Study of Supply-Side Dynamics
The paper argues for a rethink of the existing regulatory and policy requirements pertaining to setting up and, more importantly, scaling up ...Properly Defining “Green Electricity” is Key to India’s Broader...
Rahul Tongia highlights the complexities of green supply and green consumption. More RE is inevitable and welcome. Better accounting and signalling (such ...Commodity Prices and the Twin Balance Sheet Crisis
Abhishek Kumar and Divya Srinivasan use data from India (the second-largest steel producer in the world) to estimate the effect of large ...An Analysis of Off-Budget Borrowings by Indian Governments and their Legal...
Shruti Gupta and Kevin James examine the regulatory framework and institutional gaps surrounding off-budget borrowings in India.Economic Growth and Human Development in India: Are States Converging?
This Working Paper examines the key aspects of the relationship between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) at the all-India and ...Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets...
The paper demonstrates that a mandatory disclosure law on housing projects can have important, pro-efficiency effects in a developing country, and suggests ...Assessing the Criticality of Minerals for India 2023
An extension of an earlier study with a focus on 43 select critical minerals that emphasizes the need for a national strategy ...India’s New Growth Recipe: Globally Competitive Large Firms
Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva analyse growth performance over a period of 26 years to understand the drivers behind India's economic growth.Post-Lease Clearances: Streamlining the Time-Cost
Karthik Bansal and Ishita Kapoor's paper discusses three case studies on Jharkhand, Odisha and Karnataka to highlight procedural problems with obtaining licenses ...Climate Change, Weather Anomalies, and Agriculture: Impact on Output of...
The paper finds that the availability of greater data makes it possible to assess a large set of crops over a long ...Health System in the Kingdom of Thailand: Reforms, Achievements and...
Health systems in Thailand have been frequently researched since its reforms in early 2000s, especially in the context of health coverage (UHC).Health System in Brazil: Reforms, Transformation and Challenges
Sandhya Venkateswaran and Alok Kumar Singh traces the trajectory of health system reform in Brazil, from 1990 to 2019, and analyses the contextual ...Health System in the Republic of Indonesia: Reforms, Transformations, and...
Madhurima Nundy and Pankhuri Bhatt analyse systemic transformations and studies the achievements and challenges in reforming health services in Indonesia over the ...Critical Challenges in Realising the Energy Transition: An Overview of...
Laveesh Bhandari and Aasheerwad Dwivedi's paper studies three of the many challenges that state governments will face as India transitions away from ...The Political Journey of Healthcare in Select Indian States
This paper examines the political trajectory of health in five Indian states, in terms of the sociopolitical determinants of attention to health, ...Financing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Developing Countries
Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel's paper attempts to quantify the scale and possible composition of international financial assistance that might be ...Health Systems Reforms and Transformations: Insights from Country Studies
The Health System Reforms and Transformation: Insights from Country Studies is a series of six case studies from China, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, ...Modelling the Impact of the Clean Environment Cess: A Hybrid Energy...
Rajat Verma and Ganesh Sivamani's paper seeks to measure the impact of this cess on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the gross domestic ...Commodity Price Shocks and Non-Performing Assets in the Indian Banking...
Abhishek Kumar, Rakesh Mohan and Divya Srinivasan show that nonperforming assets in the banking sector and profit ratios in commodity-sensitive non-financial sectors ...Health System in Mexico: Reforms, Transformation and Challenges
Alok Kumar Singh and Sandhya Venkateswaran trace the trajectory of health system reforms, including and prior to Seguro Popular (SP), from 2003 ...Health System in Turkey: Reforms, Transformation and Challenges
Sandhya Venkateswaran and Alok Kumar Singh trace the trajectory of health system reform in Turkey, from 2003 to 2019, and analyses the ...Health System in People’s Republic of China (PRC): Reforms,...
Madhurima Nundy and Sandhya Venkateswaran's paper outlines the salient features of health reforms in China and their impact in terms of access, ...India’s Energy and Fiscal Transition
Laveesh Bhandari and Aasheerwad Dwivedi's paper looks at India’s expected energy transition towards a low-carbon future, and studies how government revenues from ...Managing Climate Change: A Strategy for India
Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Utkarsh Patel's study shows that there is considerable scope for reducing the volume of emissions through a combination ...Reforming the Public Financial Management System in India
Streamlining a scattered PFM framework in the country by drawing from other countries and proposing reforms in the existing system.Critical Minerals for India: Assessing their Criticality and Projecting...
The paper projects India’s mineral needs for green technologies, including renewable electricity generation and electric vehicle manufacturing, in line with the country’s ...A Study of the Fiscal Marksmanship of Capital Expenditure Among Indian...
This paper aims to comprehensively analyse and understand sub-national fiscal marksmanship, with a particular focus on capital expenditure in the social sector.Political Motivation as a Key Driver for Universal Health Coverage
Political motivation does not always arise by itself, but it is often driven by external factors and stakeholders who contribute to creating or ...A Granular Comparison of International Electricity Prices and Implications...
This paper highlights some of the specificities of other countries and their electricity prices in order to better direct regulatory attention to measures ...A Hybrid Energy Input-Output Table for India
Rajesh Chadha and Ganesh Sivamani's paper details the construction of India’s hybrid Energy Input-Output Table 2015-16, which has information on the monetary, ...Property Laws and Property Practices in India
While the first amendments to the Indian Constitution were made to enable the State to redistribute land more equitably, this was followed ...SVAMITVA: A socio-legal analysis
The paper highlights the gaps in the Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas (SVAMITVA) scheme and suggests ...Health Status in India: Challenges and Opportunities
India has experienced considerable progress in health, in outcomes as also infrastructure. However, the task of addressing the health of India’s citizens ...What Drives Media Reporting?
Is media reporting linked to readers' interest? We revisit a paper by Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Sikim Chakraborty on what drives ...The Roller Coaster Ride of Non-performing Assets in Indian Banking
While the pandemic and some of the associated policy measures could reverse the recent downward trends in NPAs temporarily, more durable policy ...Climate Change Policy for Developing Countries
The paper attempts to take stock of what has been achieved in the COP-26 meetings held in Glasgow in November 2021 and ...Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and Long-Term Bulk Lending in India
Jaimini Bhagwati examines the effectiveness of the 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act (IBC) as the most recent legislation to enable quicker resolution ...Internal Drivers of China’s External Behaviour
Shivshankar Menon suggests crucial domestic factors which have driven China’s path and examines some implications of the role in shaping China’s policy ...The Political Pathway to Health System Improvements in India
With a predominantly family health and infectious disease focus, India’s health system is not well geared to deal with the increasing burden ...Long-Term Goal-Setting and Planning for Decarbonising the Indian Power...
It is important that the approach used in India for setting and implementation of targets pays attention to, not only environmental impacts, but ...India’s Next Decade: Some Predictions, Some Speculations
India of 2030 will look very different from an institutional setting and that will perhaps be the core driver of all the ...Can Property Rights Improve Access to Toilets for the Urban Poor? Evidence...
Shaonlee Patranabis and Sahil Gandhi analyse slum laws from three states, studying two approaches to improvement of slums—redevelopment, and provision of property ...Getting to Net Zero: An Approach for India at CoP-26
The best short-term target India could offer would be a planned phasing out of coal based power generation.Flatten-the-curve: Why total carbon emissions matter much more than...
Becoming zero is important, but “date of net-zero” is incomplete, lacking any measure of what the date should be. “Sooner is better” ...Non-fuel Mineral Auctions: How Fair is the Game, and For Whom?
The 2015 MMDR amendment introduced the auctions regime, ending first come, first serve allocations, but the system needs a reviewFault Lines: Reflections on South Asian Frontiers
Is the experience of borders and boundaries in South Asia different from other regions of the world?Linking Land Borders: India’s Integrated Check Posts
How India’s Integrated Check Posts at its borders with Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar and Pakistan facilitate regional connectivityThe Response of the Reserve Bank of India to Covid-19: Do Whatever it...
Rakesh Mohan discusses the role of Reserve Bank of India in fighting the economic impact of Covid-19 and the ensuing lockdown.CSEP sustainable mining attractiveness index: District-level study of...
This paper introduces the concept of a Sustainable Mining Attractiveness Index to evaluate the mining sustainability in the districts of the Indian ...Revisiting the role of funding: Lessons from expenditure and performance...
As large parts of Bengaluru remain under water, we revisit a paper by Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva on the role of ...Challenges for natural gas to become India’s bridge fuel: Economics,...
This paper examines the possibilities for natural gas in India’s energy mix, both through the lens of competitive economic viability as well ...A third-generation strategy for accelerated growth and development in...
The third generation of economic reforms must direct attention to improving the government’s own competence, at all levels.India’s Housing Vacancy Paradox: How rent control and weak contract...
How rent control and weak contract enforcement produce unoccupied units and a housing shortage at the same time.IMF Quota reforms and global economic governance: What does the future...
The world is on the cusp of an epochal change in global economic power, not seen since the start of the Industrial ...Input-output transactions table: Odisha 2015-16
The Odisha Input-Output Transactions Table for 2015-16 depicts intersectoral intermediate transactions across 76 sectors of the state’s economy, the final demand for ...Mining and Jurisprudence: Observations for India’s mining sector to...
Over the past decade, India's mining sector, including the non-fuel mineral sector, has been marred by countless controversies.Regulatory reform for non-fuel minerals: Improving the post-leasing...
In March 2020, the Government of India passed the Mineral Laws Amendment Bill 2020, which amends the Mines and Minerals (Development and ...Mobility and tenure choice in urban India
This paper considers the impact that the shrinking rental sector has had on the opportunities for Indians to migrate.Early life exposure to outdoor air pollution: Effect on child health in...
Pollution in any form, whether it be air or water, poses an environmental risk to the health of the exposed population. Literature ...Too slow for the urban march: Litigations and real estate market in...
India is urbanising and putting increasing pressure on urban land and there is growing impetus to convert land from agriculture to non-agriculture ...Transitioning Towards a Sustainable Energy Future: Challenges and...
India sits at the nub of the crisis of the current high carbon model of development. It is not responsible for this ...Missing Female Patients: An Analysis of Gender Ratios from a Tertiary Care...
Abstract The issue of missing women, which is excess mortality of females as seen in low population ratio of women to men, in ...TPP and India: Lessons for Future Gains
Until 2015, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) was seen as a game-changer in the evolving international trade regulatory regime. It was evident, ...The impact of Electronic Voting Machines on electoral frauds, democracy,...
Free and fair elections are cornerstones of democracy. In India, electronic voting machines (EVMs) were introduced with the objective of reducing electoral ...Working Paper: Trade Policy Reform in India Since 1991
SUMMARY: This paper discusses India’s trade policy reform since 1991, providing quantitative information and qualitative insights regarding the evolution of trade policy ...Indian Financial Sector: Structure, Trends and Turns
This paper traces the story of Indian financial sector over the period 1950-2015. In identifying the trends and turns of Indian financial ...Emerging Powers and Global Governance: Whither the IMF?
Although the role of the emerging economic powers is increasing, their soft power is not rising at the same pace, explores Brookings ...Report | Priorities for India’s National health policy
One of India’s fundamental failings as a modern nation has been our inability to get successive governments to prioritize and deal with ...Do rural residential electricity consumers cross-subside their urban...
Santosh Harish and Rahul Tongia examine inequities in supply of household electricity in India, using minute-level data for every feeder across a ...Working Paper: Women in Party Politics
Introduction: The Women’s Reservation Bill – which proposes to reserve 33 per cent of seats in Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies for ...
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