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Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | Urbanization: No City-Dweller Left Behind

By Harshita Agrawal

With the Indian general elections around the corner, the team at IDFC Institute wrote a manifesto for planning for our urban future for Pragati.

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | Failing to acknowledge urbanisation undermines quality of life

By Kadambari Shah & Harshita Agrawal

In this Hindustan Times article, Associate Kadambari Shah and Senior Analyst Harshita Agrawal write about how undercounting urban areas leads to inadequate service delivery and lowers quality of life.

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | The other data challenge: Measuring life in a metro

By Kadambari Shah, Harsh Vardhan Pachisia & Harshita Agrawal

How can policymakers improve the management of Indian cities?

Op-ed February 13, 2025

Opinion | Mumbai’s Seroprevalence Results Point the Way On Urban Reform

By Patrick Lamson-Hall, Kadambari Shah & Harshita Agrawal

Mumbai’s seroprevalence studies point to structural issues in urban planning and housing in the city, particularly in slums.

Op-ed February 5, 2025

Opinion | Artificial intelligence tools raise productivity. They can also act as great equalizers

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

In this article for Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Executive Director, Artha Global, states that studies show how AI can close organisational and societal skill gaps. But this raises a profound question. Does everyone becoming an expert mean nobody will be an expert? Read the article here Banner image sourced from Unsplash. 

Op-ed February 3, 2025

Opinion | In economy’s shifting sands, a budget to boost demand

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

In this article for Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Executive Director, Artha Global, states that as the tide of post-pandemic demand ebbs and a new fiscal framework takes shape, Nirmala Sitharaman’s latest budget aims to tackle a slowdown it seems to consider cyclical in nature. Read the article here.

Op-ed February 3, 2025

Opinion | India needs a new fiscal policy framework: Here’s why

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

In this article for Mint, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Executive Director, Artha Global, states that after 2025-26, India plans to switch its target. Going by the level of public debt will afford the government greater flexibility—even if this measure is harder to track and our monetary policy framework may need to adapt. Read the article here.

Op-ed January 8, 2025

Opinion | Manmohan Singh: The archetypical insider who guided India towards its economic potential

In his 1992 budget speech, Manmohan Singh had said that India had to pursue the East Asian path once its economy had been stabilised.

Op-ed January 8, 2025

Opinion | India’s central bank should lead the policy easing cycle that its economy needs

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Indian macro policy has been tight at a time when domestic demand from households, firms and the government shows signs of weaknesses.

Op-ed December 17, 2024

Opinion | Privacy as priority: India can’t afford any further delay in notifying data protection rules

By Sridhar Ganapathy

Rising instances of data breaches across the online ecosystem make it imperative that the privacy shield passed by Parliament is quickly put in place.

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