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Environmental Federalism: A Roadmap for Climate Responsive Budgeting (CRB) in India

18/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Amandeep Kaur]

 

A climate responsive budgeting (CRB) for both adaptation and mitigation is a dynamic process in environmental federalism.* A promising framework for CRB has been evolving within the purview of the Public Financial Management (PFM) over the years across selected Asian and African countries including Morocco ...


Replacing FIPB with Standard Operating Procedure not enough

13/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Radhika Pandey and Sumant Prashant]

 

Foreign investment into India has always been heavily regulated, requiring approvals from various government ministries. Post-liberalisation, a need was felt to create a single window for foreign investors applying for such approvals. As a result, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) was ...


Issues with the regulation of Information Utilities

13/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Prasanth Regy, Renuka Sane, Anjali Sharma, and Shivangi Tyagi]

 

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) provides for the speedy resolution of insolvency. The process described in IBC hinges on the assumption that information will be easily accessible to the parties involved. It is for this purpose ...


Concerns about how the Medical Council of India thinks about medical malpractice

04/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Shubho Roy] 

 
India has approximately 5.2 million medical negligence cases annually. A study for Mumbai showed that medico-legal cases, in courts, against doctors rose from 910 in the period from 1998 and 2006, to 150-200 cases every year. The responsibility to regulate the medical profession ...

MGNREGA: Has Direct Fiscal Transfer provided more jobs to women?

03/07/2017

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[Co-authored with Yadawendra Singh]

 

Globally, a direct employment transfer - a job guarantee programme - is an “employer of last resort” fiscal policy, which envisions the government bearing a guarantee to provide paid work opportunities of predictable duration at a predetermined wage for public works. Though many such job guarantee initiatives ...