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Podcast | Why are house prices so high in India?
In this episode, Shishir Gupta discusses the factors behind the high cost of housing in India and suggests possible solutions.Interview | Can private capex offset govt spend curbs in FY25?
Shishir Gupta provides insights into the RBI urging the private sector to take over the responsibility of driving capex. Could it slow down the momentum of govt capex in FY25?The Real Reason Middle Class Indians Can’t Afford to Buy Homes — and...
The first step in improving affordability is to release land supply in a planned and transparent manner. This will increase competition and put pressure on prices.Rekindling Corporate Investment
To achieve the levels seen in 2008, it is essential to increase corporate productivity, write Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.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 unique dataset that gives house prices over the past 30 years.Trade: A Call to Action for Rapid Growth
For India to attain high-income status by 2047, it must urgently prioritise trade as the primary driver for achieving accelerated growth.Why India Needs to Look Beyond Logistics to Improve its Manufacturing...
The government's intent is sensible, and infrastructure does seem to have improved over time. India jumped six places from 44 (2018) to 38 (2023) in the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (LPI). However, there are two main fallacies in the argument that puts disproportionate importance on logistics cost as a key reason ...We Must Incentivise Household Savings for a Fast Economic Growth
Shishir Gupta and Rishista Sachdeva suggest the need to push for household savings to acheive accelerated growth on a sustained basis.India’s New Growth Recipe: Larger Firms
Large Indian firms are yet to become global champions. Given the global headwinds, India should focus on improving the competitiveness of these companies so that they can tap into large external markets far more than they have managed so far, say Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.View: A more Competitive India Inc can Grow Faster and Bigger, and Capture...
There are, indeed, some green shoots visible, especially on the corporate and export front, which may help accelerate growth in the short run. However, transforming this head-start into faster long-term growth requires an improvement in competitiveness.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.What Drives Media Reporting? | The Media Rumble 2022
What makes an event newsworthy? Shishir Gupta and Nandini Agnihotri shed light on what drives media reporting in this virtual session.Municipal Finance in Focus: How India can Empower its Urban Local Bodies
The low and deteriorating level of delivery of urban services needs to be addressed urgently. Cities contribute about 63% of India's net domestic product (NDP). Hence, deterioration in service delivery levels will impact their growth potential.India’s Start-ups are on Fire, but Unicorns can’t Automatically Spur...
Economic miracles only happen when globally competitive firms tap into external demand, says Shishir Gupta.What Drives the Media’s Coverage of Social Issues?
What influences media reporting? Shishir Gupta and Nandini Agnihotri's study explores reader interest as a factor that drives news coverage.Revisiting the role of funding: Lessons from expenditure and performance...
Comparing expenditure on Solid Waste Management (SWM) and cleanliness performance for 11 municipalities in India, Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva find out that there is no systematicity between increase in expenditure and improved performance.What Drives Media Reporting?
Not only is the frequency of media reporting on urban conflicts greater, but each urban conflict is also covered much more extensively than those in rural areas; this is despite the fact that a much larger number of people are potentially impacted in the latter.Why Most Indians Don’t Trust News? A Study of Land Conflicts Answers
A study of 714 land conflicts in India find that beyond being ‘influenced’ or ‘sensationalised’, there are objective reasons that decide media coverage.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 media reporting in India.Enough of the Old ‘Level Playing Field’ Argument. Reduce Trade...
Data from the IMF's October 2021 World Economic Outlook reveals that India's real exports growth moves in tandem with the growth in global real exports. Consequently, the steep decline in India's export growth since 2018 onwards is mirrored by a decline in global export growth in general.Waste Management and Cleanliness in Cities: Linking Expenditure with...
Our results indicate that while SWM expenditure per capita is positive and statistically significant at 1% level, waste generation is completely insignificant, argues Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.Higher Funding Alone Doesn’t Improve Urban Services
Adequate expenditure alone is not enough to improve public services and other outcomes, write Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.Lessons on expenditure and performance on cleanliness on Indian cities
HT Insight features CSEP's recent study on mapping expenditure and outcomes for improved service delivery across Indian cities.Revisiting the role of funding for improved urban services
Stable city leadership, effective PPP, and citizen engagement play a key role in providing better SWM servicesRevisiting 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 funding in delivering better urban services. Using SWM as an example, the authors argue that service delivery levels can increase significantly without spending (much) more.