India, April 9 -- All of Assam and Kerala will vote to elect a new assembly today. In Assam, the primary contest is between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress. In Kerala, it is the Comm... Read More
India, April 7 -- Kerala is India's only large state where three religious groups have a significant share in population. How does this religious diversity feed into the state's political economy? Ans... Read More
India, March 12 -- Economists are busy calculating the terms of trade shock of the ongoing war in West Asia on India. The non-economists are worried about restaurants and houses running out cooking ga... Read More
India, March 9 -- How much do Indian households spend compared to what they earn? Is the earning-spending gap higher in villages or cities? What about debt? Are the rich more indebted or the poor? The... Read More
India, March 2 -- It has now been more than eight months since the Election Commission of India (ECI) started its Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process to overhaul electoral rolls in India. The exe... Read More
India, Feb. 5 -- The first part of this series looked at the rationale and importance of equality in India's fiscal federalism. It also explained how this path has been vitiated by the concurrent issu... Read More
India, Feb. 4 -- Fiscal year 2026-27 marks the beginning of the five-year period for awards of the 16th Finance Commission (FC). The key takeaways from the 16th FC awards - unchanged vertical tax devo... Read More
India, Jan. 23 -- According to the United Nation's population projections, India replaced China as the most populous country in the world in mid-2022. While UN projections expect India's population to... Read More