×








Vivek Dehejia

Former Resident Senior Fellow

Dr. Vivek Dehejia was Resident Senior Fellow in Political Economy at IDFC Institute. Dr. Dehejia is also Associate Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Columnist, Mint.

He holds a PhD in Economics (1995) from Columbia University in New York, where his thesis supervisors included the Nobel laureate Robert Mundell and the noted international trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati. Dr. Dehejia is also co-author of “”Indianomix: Making Sense of Modern India”” (Random House India, 2012, republished in paperback 2015).

Follow @vdehejia

Related Articles

Policy Brief

NITI Aayog – IDFC Institute Enterprise Survey

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

An Enterprise Survey of Indian States
Searching for jobs. Photo credit: Canva.

Report

Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India

By Vaidehi Tandel, Harshita Agrawal, Prakhar Misra, Sharmadha Srinivasan & Vivek Dehejia

The Infrastructure Priorities for Job Creation in India report attempts to understand the impact of infrastructure investment on economic activity.

Report

Ease of Doing Business: An Enterprise Survey of Indian States

By Vivek Dehejia, Komal Hiranandani, Rithika Kumar, Shamika Ravi, Kadambari Shah & Vaidehi Tandel

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.

Paper

Will GST exacerbate regional divergence?

By Vivek Dehejia & Praveen Chakravarty

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.