What’s In A Definition?: A Study on Implications and Suitability of Urban Definitions in India through its Employment Guarantee Programme

Paper November 19, 2018

What’s In A Definition?: A Study on Implications and Suitability of Urban Definitions in India through its Employment Guarantee Programme

By Vaidehi Tandel, Komal Hiranandani & Mudit Kapoor

This paper discusses the political economy of definitions of urban and rural in India. When using alternative definitions of urban, we find that India is much more urban than is officially recognised and present a case for alternate definitions.

Paper August 8, 2018

Mismatched Governance: Exploring the Relationship Between Rural and Urban Governance Forms and Urban Development in India

By Komal Hiranandani

This Working Paper by former Senior Associate, Komal Hiranandani, was submitted to Cornell University as her Master of Science thesis, and was partially supported by IDFC Institute.

Paper August 1, 2018

Political Diversity and Competition in India

By Vishal More, Ishita Trivedi & Swapnil Bhandari

Utilizing data on election results from 1952 to 2017, covering all 16 Lok Sabha or Parliamentary Constituency elections and last 3 elections for each state/UT assemblies

Paper July 3, 2017

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.

Paper February 6, 2017

Is the World Retreating from Globalisation

By Vivek Dehejia

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

Paper November 23, 2016

India’s Curious Case of Economic Divergence

By Vivek Dehejia & Praveen Chakravarty

Economic theory suggests that we should observe convergence in income per capita among countries or within regions in a large federal country.

Paper December 14, 2015

IDFC-U Roundtable on “Facilitating an Easy Market for Affordable Housing Development”

IDFC Institute hosted a private roundtable on “Facilitating an Easy Market for Affordable Housing Development in India” with developers, financiers, policy experts, and academics

Paper November 1, 2015

Impact of Inflation on Electoral Outcomes in India

By Praveen Chakravarty

The established wisdom is that inflation and prices play a significant role in Indian voter behavior.

Paper May 7, 2014

Vulnerabilities of Institutional Checks in Indian Federalism: The Case of the Adarsh Society Scam in Mumbai

By Vaidehi Tandel & Sahil Gandhi

We demonstrate, by studying the Adarsh scam, the vulnerabilities of checks and balances.

Paper April 1, 2014

Re-thinking urban planning in India: Learning from the wedge between the de jure and de facto development in Mumbai

By Vaidehi Tandel & Sahil Gandhi

Through an empirical study of an area in the suburbs of Mumbai (India), this paper shows the wedge between planned and actual land use and discusses the reasons for this dichotomy.

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