Urbanomics

Regular working lunch at the recently opened Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad costs an exorbitant Rs 300 per plate! (didn...

There have been some recent reports of agriculture labour shortages and rise in the wages of agriculture labour, from many parts of the coun...

NYT has this graph, which is an excellent example of how consumers respond to variations in prices. With gasoline crossing $4 a gallon, and...

"Administrative reforms" (AR) is one of the most widely debated phrases in public policy circles. No discussion about governance i...

In a NYT op-ed Amartya Sen describes the ongoing food crisis in terms of the tale of two peoples, In one version of the story, a country wi...

I have argued earlier here and here that conditional cash transfer (CCT) is a more economically efficient way of transferring welfare bene...

Robert Frank makes out an excellent theretical case for taxes in general under certain circumstances, and gas tax in particular. Quoting Ada...