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Report April 30, 2025

Report | Rethinking Development Priorities: A Manifesto for Economic Growth in Developing Countries

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This report brings together cross-country evidence to illustrate how sustained economic expansion has consistently driven reductions in poverty and improvements in health, education, and living standards.

Op-ed April 30, 2025

Opinion | India must redraw its poverty line to reflect economic progress

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

As IMF projections indicate, we’re on the cusp of becoming an upper middle-income country. Our poverty measurement must evolve accordingly.

Op-ed April 30, 2025

Opinion | India could use quick inputs from citizens for better public policy responses

By Dr. Neelanjan Sircar & Priya Vedavalli

Administrative data and traditional surveys could be supplemented with high-quality polling to formulate action plans.

Op-ed April 29, 2025

Opinion | Cash vs digital: Rethinking India’s payment narrative

By Nikita Kwatra

A resilient system expands choice and builds trust.

Blog April 23, 2025

UPI’s Role in Financial Inclusion for India’s Next Half Billion

By Sridhar Ganapathy & Neha Jain

Without meaningful efforts to improve trust in Digital Financial Services (DFS) among the Next Half Billion (NHB), adoption may remain limited, preventing them from fully benefiting from financial inclusion.

Op-ed April 21, 2025

Opinion | To accelerate AI, India can adopt key elements from Macron’s ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach

By Priya Vedavalli

India’s $1.3 billion National AI Mission faces challenges in keeping pace. India can draw lessons from France’s ‘entrepreneurial state’ model.

Op-ed April 21, 2025

Opinion | Spaghetti-bowl trade deals could alter the global balance of power

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Looking back at the 1930’s may help us predict the effects of the ongoing trade war and the shift from multilateral to bilateral trade deals.

Op-ed April 21, 2025

Opinion | Keep track of trade turbulence amid a scenario of benign inflation

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

India’s monetary policymakers will need to calibrate their approach by the potential effects of America’s new import tariff regime.

Op-ed April 21, 2025

Opinion | Deregulation: Relieve businesses of relics from India’s command economy

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

While the 1991 reforms did away with many controls, there is still an entire web of regulations that impose an immense burden on companies, especially the smaller ones.

Op-ed April 21, 2025

Opinion | Geopolitics has cast a long shadow on the gravity model of world trade

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Strategic alignments have begun shaping global trade patterns.

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