Urbanomics

Here is my Mint op-ed that makes the case for using third party agencies to provide feedback on the quality of public service delivery and ...

It is widely acknowledged that the biggest failure of our government bureaucratic machinery lies in its inability to ensure the effective im...

Historically, while there has been a well-established architecture, both in terms of institutions and formal rules, for taking monetary poli...

In the past two decades, micro-finance (and self-help groups) has almost acquired a reputation of being the closest to a magic bullet in dev...

The logic in favor of fiscal expansion when faced with a recession, in which aggregate demand has tanked precipitously, unemployment is high...

I have blogged here and here about fiscal multipliers for different policy choices. Among the different fiscal stimulus spending choices, ...

The last decade has seen spectacular growth in China's external trade, and the ballooning trade surplus has resulted in an exponential g...