5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1026+ words) India has about 10-11 crore people belonging to denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes, constituting 8% of the total population. In this post, Utkarsh Mishra discusses how the lack of a fixed address keeps them out of India’s welfare system, and what it…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (277+ words) Even though India possesses one of the world’s largest foreign-exchange reserve buffers, why does the rupee depreciate during episodes of global turbulence? In this post, Apica Sharma contends that in today’s context, a weaker rupee often reflects not a weaker…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (169+ words) This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – discussing I4I content pertaining to pollution from Ludhiana’s industrial clusters; how India’s Act East Policy can spur industrial renewal in the country’s eastern states; and Delhi’s new policy…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (408+ words) In recent years, a shift in focus towards outcomes in government functioning is admirable. For example, the adoption of the NIPUN Bharat Mission ('National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy') (and its state variants) has meant a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (934+ words) Ideas for India Alan Greenspan’s inconsistent stance on asset bubbles Alan Greenspan, the former Fed Chair who passed away in June 2026, was once hailed as the infallible “maestro” of American monetary policy. In this blog, Moorthy revisits Greenspan’s asymmetric record…...

3+ week, 57+ min ago   (393+ words) Men are approximately three times more likely to use a phone or bank card (debit or credit) to buy groceries or cleaning supplies in informal outdoor markets3, and twice as likely to pay digitally for in-store purchases and bills. Only 3% of…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (807+ words) Ideas for India India’s trade diplomacy marks a new era Amid global uncertainty, India is repositioning itself in international markets via strategic, forward-looking trade agreements. In this post, Ara and Pathak discuss how the trade deals with New Zealand and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (775+ words) Ideas for India Policy Roundup: District GDP, gender bias in AI, weak rupee This post presents our monthly curation of developments in the Indian policy landscape – discussing I4I content pertaining to measurement of economic activity at the sub-national levels; the feedback…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) The question is whether electricity markets can resolve that paradox. Specifically: if farmers can sell surplus solar electricity back to the grid at a remunerative tariff, does the opportunity cost of that foregone income change how much groundwater they pump?...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (436+ words) By linking household responses to the reservation history of their village, we categorise GPs into three main groups: Because the assignment is random, comparing these groups reveals the causal impact of exposure to female leadership. Contrary to the expectation that…...