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India’s focus on remittances costs at the G20
India’s focus on remittances costs at G20 to benefit Indian workers . The meeting of the G20 leaders in Antalaya, Turkey on November 15th– 16th, 2015 was held...
Public procurement legislation: Essential for improving public financial management in India
The new government’s initiative to formally legislate Union government’s procurement process should be welcomed. Among the major continuing challenges in public...
The evolving dynamics of union–state fiscal relations
Focusing on the altered public financial management dynamics of state governments and analysing the opportunities and challenges. There have been many developments...
Addressing inequality in Singapore
Addressing inequality issue in Singapore and studying its implications for India. The publication of Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the Twenty First...
Rethinking MGNREGA
From welfare to skilling and creating productive assets. There is growing consensus that the substance of the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)...
Financing smart cities: key requirements
The “smart cities” project represents an opportunity to experiment with organisational and governance structures of the cities, with a view to enhancing performance-orientation...
The Jan Dhan Yojna: the key considerations in obtaining desired outcomes.
Accountable and transparent organisational structure for implementing PMJDY should be essential for realising the desired societal outcomes. On the occasion of the...
India’s budget 2014-15
India’s budget 2014-15: Initial steps towards professionalising tax administration. There has been widespread concern that the current organisations and systems...
Reforming public enterprises
Change of control and ownership is not essential. The proposition that nationalisation (transfer of enterprise ownership and control from the private sector to the...
Probable economic priorities of the NDA government
Exhibition of higher level of economic literacy by all the stakeholders, could help in better communicating public policies and progress towards effective realisation...
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