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Why the Swatantra Party could not be resurrected

While a modern-day Swatantra Party may be unviable, some of its ideas do resonate with India’s increasingly vocal middle class

22.04.2024 5

Pramit Bhattacharya

Poll finance is waiting for a clean-up by ECI

Creating a level-playing field for elections should not just mean reining in central investigative agencies that are selectively targeting Opposition...

08.04.2024 9

Pramit Bhattacharya

How a popular strand of economics lost its shine

If 2008 marked the rise of behavioural economics, 2023 marks a year of reckoning. The Gino-Colada affair has blown the lid off a simmering crisis in...

11.12.2023 2

Pramit Bhattacharya

Getting Indian banks back on the track

India’s poorly governed banking sector remains ill-equipped to support and sustain a recovery in investments.

27.11.2023 2

Pramit Bhattacharya

The welfare programme economists loved to hate

Unlike several populist schemes that disproportionately benefit rural elites, MGNREGS reaches precisely those who need the State’s help the most.

14.11.2023 3

Pramit Bhattacharya

India must fill data gaps on inequality before policy can address it properly

For a long time, India was considered to be a country with low levels of income inequality. While inter-caste inequality was recognized, inequality...

07.11.2023 7

Pramit Bhattacharya

Needed, a new contract between RBI and GOI

Recent revelations by a former central banker and a former bureaucrat have put the spotlight on the relationship between the RBI and the Union finance...

03.10.2023 8