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Policy Brief April 30, 2020

COVID-19 response policies: A comparison of Indian States

By Mehul Das, Avanti Durani, Isalyne Gennaro, Sneha P, Kadambari Shah, Tvesha Sippy & Priya Vedavalli

This note documents the strategies and policies adopted by Indian state governments at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

Op-ed April 21, 2020

Opinion | COVID-19: COVID-19 a grim reminder for govts to improve sanitation, housing in cities to prevent pandemics; science won’t be enough

By Vaidehi Tandel

The ability to quickly overpower disease outbreaks through the use of science, innovation and technology had led governments to neglect their role in effective prevention of such epidemics

Op-ed April 16, 2020

Why does India have so few COVID-19 cases and deaths?

By Arpit Gupta, Dr. Anup Malani & Dr. Reuben Abraham

India is four times more populous than the US, but has just 2% the number of cases and only 1.5% of the number of Covid-19 deaths. How has the country, whose per capita income is just tenth of the US, avoided being flattened by the pandemic?

Op-ed April 6, 2020

Opinion | Covid-19: To get an accurate estimate of the spread, India must ensure random community testing

By Arpit Gupta, Dr. Anup Malani & Dr. Reuben Abraham

While we have estimates on the number of deaths, we are flying blind in estimating the denominator of the fatality rate.

Policy Brief February 25, 2020

Unlock Mumbai’s land revenue to upgrade the city

By Harshita Agrawal & Isalyne Gennaro

India’s richest municipal body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), faces a funds crunch. It needs to capitalise on its assets and aim for greater revenues from the land market.

Op-ed February 7, 2020

How India’s data bill falls short of offering solutions for regulating digital competition

By Vikram Sinha

The bill’s brute force approach to giving users control over their digital selves through data portability provision runs roughshod over market dynamics.

Op-ed February 5, 2020

Opinion| The costs of congestion: A case study of Mumbai

By Harsh Vardhan Pachisia & Kadambari Shah

From economic efficiency to environmental damage, citizens pay a heavy price.

Paper January 31, 2020

Antitrust and Zero-price Digital Platforms: An Indian Regulatory Approach

By Bhusan Jatania

This paper looks at digital platforms that provide “free” services and analyses the application of Indian competition law to them.

Op-ed January 29, 2020

UPI’s rapid growth proves India can build world-class payments infrastructure from scratch

By Venkatesh Hariharan

Three years ago, even banks did not give Modi govt’s Unified Payments Interface much odds of success. Now, UPI is one of the fastest-growing payment platforms in the world.

Op-ed January 24, 2020

Opinion | Ayushman Bharat can be a success if Modi govt incentivises digital data for private players

By Alex Fager & Prakhar Misra

Modi govt’s proposed Personal Data Protection Bill has to be in conjunction with its blueprint governing India’s health data. But can it make private players participate?

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