Public Seminar hosted by NIPFP featuring the “Safety Trends and Reporting of Crime – A Crime Victimisation Survey”.

The poor sense of safety and consequent adaptive behaviours adopted by households using SATARC Survey data.

The state of underreporting of crime in 4 major cities of India.

Ease of Doing Business: An Enterprise Survey of Indian States draws upon trends across states, sectors and types of firms, proposing reforms to facilitate doing business and create an enabling ecosystem.

People’s confidence in the police in four major metros in India.

Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia, Senior Fellows, analyze the potential impact of the Goods and Services tax on regional divergence in outcomes in their Economic and Political Weekly article.

Victimisation surveys give the police a better understanding of crime and thus help to bridge the gap between the people and the police, benefitting both.

The article makes a case for undertaking budgetary reforms in order to improve police performance.

The past two centuries have witnessed growth in international trade along with a spread of liberal ideas and democracy across countries. In this paper, Vivek Dehejia & James Dean provide a brief history of the rise of Anglo-American liberal values and globalisation that coincided with the rise of Great Britain and then the United States as successive global […]

The past two centuries have witnessed growth in international trade along with a spread of liberal ideas and democracy across countries.