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Paper July 11, 2022

Understanding societal responses to policies undertaken during emergencies

By Sridhar Ganapathy, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia & Nikita Kwatra

Lessons from COVID-19’s Second Wave in Maharashtra

Policy Brief July 8, 2022

NITI Aayog – IDFC Institute Enterprise Survey

By Kadambari Shah, Shamika Ravi, Vaidehi Tandel & Vivek Dehejia

An Enterprise Survey of Indian States

Op-ed July 1, 2022

Opinion | These are the gaps the Centre must fill to ensure 100% coverage of welfare beneficiaries

By Nikita Kwatra

India has an extremely complex social protection system where benefits are thinly spread across a number of central and state government schemes.

Op-ed June 15, 2022

Opinion | The Central Bank’s Balance Sheet Will Shrink as it Battles Inflation

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

The trajectory of RBI’s repo rate as well as the way it manages its asset holdings will need to be watched closely from here on

Policy Brief June 10, 2022

Response to the proposed National Data Governance Framework Policy, May 2022

By Rajeswari Parasa, Sharmadha Srinivasan, Nikita Kwatra, Upasana Hembram & Sridhar Ganapathy

A national data governance framework policy is a much-needed step in the direction of unlocking public data for various purposes: from improving service delivery, spurring innovation, to even assisting in the fight against misinformation.

Report May 20, 2022

Localising Green Transitions in India

By Sam Downes, Saurabh Modi & Jagan Shah

How India is urbanising threatens to block its path to net zero emissions. Cities must be placed at the centre of the conversation around climate change.

Op-ed April 3, 2022

Opinion | Voluntary masking should be the way forward

By Dr. Reuben Abraham & Dr. Lancelot Pinto

As Mumbai drops its mask mandates, Reuben Abraham and Lancelot Pinto reflect on the way forward to curb airborne transmission

Op-ed February 24, 2022

Opinion | RBI must address three important questions before digital rupee launch

By Nikita Kwatra, Dr. Hemant Adarkar & Vikram Sinha

The proposed technology to develop this, as per the finance minister’s budget speech, is blockchain, a digitally distributed, decentralized, public ledger that exists across a network.

Blog January 15, 2022

COVID-19 : The Mumbai Story

By Anushka Bhansali, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia, Nikita Kwatra, Sofia Imad, Sridhar Ganapathy & Tvesha Sippy

This post explores how Mumbai dealt with the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic

Paper December 23, 2021

An investigation of National Open Government Data Platforms: How can India improve?

By Sridhar Ganapathy, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia, Rajeswari Parasa & Isalyne Gennaro

We study OGD platforms as infrastructure and evaluate them based on their capability, focusing on community engagement and supporting policies and frameworks that govern their creation and use.

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