Economy

The India Forum's articles on economy that have been published since 2019.

Feminisation of Public Employment in India

A trend of feminisation of public employment is being observed in India. This could help achieve gender parity in employment and achieve higher human development levels. But high job quality is also…
▶28-Oct-2024
Dipa Sinha
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Case for a More Inclusive Social System

In his new book, Joseph Stiglitz argues that neoliberalism has focused too much on limiting government restrictions (negative freedoms) while neglecting government support (positive freedoms). This…
▶04-Oct-2024
Arjun Jayadev

Southward Ho! Demographic Change, the North-South Divide and Internal Migration in India

There are indeed demographic and development differences between the North and the South, but concerns about labour migration to the South are not warranted since the movement of labour is an…
▶29-Aug-2024
Chetan Choithani, Arslan Wali Khan

Staking Claim to Entitlements under MGNREGA

There are internal constraints and structural barriers to women’s claim-making under MGNREGA. Supporting more egalitarian decision-making within the village, designing interventions that can help…
▶28-Aug-2024
Kalyani Raghunathan, Katrina Kosec, Jordan Kyle, Sudha Narayanan, Soumyajit Ray

A Supply-fix for a Demand-problem?

For the first time in years, the NDA government has admitted that there is a need to prioritise job growth. But Budget 2024 does not offer the right policy thrust. The economy needs a new economic…
▶19-Aug-2024
Rohit Azad, Indranil Chowdhury

WIPO Treaty on Rights to Genetic Resources

India’s welcome to the WIPO accord on recognition of indigenous knowledge reflects a new pragmatism. India’s strict rules on accessing genetic material might be hindering research. So there is a…
▶05-Aug-2024
Prashant Reddy T

A Field Study of Rajasthan’s Urban Employment Guarantee Programme

Rajasthan’s urban Indira Gandhi Shahri Rozgar Guarantee Yojana, launched in 2022, has worked well so far and should be continued. There is of course room for improvement. Implementation needs to be…
▶24-Jul-2024
Shiuli Vanaja, Niruj Deka, Amit Basole

What does the Data from the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey 2022-23 tell us?

The unit-level data from the 2022-23 consumption survey raises more questions than it answers. The design has a bias that excludes poor households and the methodology makes it non-comparable with…
▶09-Jul-2024
Ishan Anand

The Spirit Underlying Some Recent Proposals for Redistributive Taxation

In an economy characterised by a massively skewed distribution of resources, resulting in undeserved deprivation for the very many and equally undeserved super-abundance for a very few, surely there…
▶02-Jul-2024
S Subramanian

Towards Tax Justice and Wealth Redistribution in India

Inequality levels have reached historical highs under the Billionaire Raj. These extreme inequalities and their close links with social injustices can no longer be ignored. A comprehensive wealth tax…
▶21-May-2024
Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Anmol Somanchi