Analysis of State Budgets 2018-19: Key Issues and Challenges

• Start date जनवरी., 2019
• Completion date दिसम्बर, 2020
• Sponsor BMGF under Innovation in Public Finance project
• Project leader Lekha Chakraborty
• Other faculty Manish Gupta and Amandeep Kaur
• Focus

  This study is an outcome of the research project, `Innovations in Public Finance’, supported by a grant from the Gates Foundation. The central theme of this report is the `Budget Credibility and Fiscal Forecasting Errors of 28 States in India’ led by Dr. Pinaki Chakraborty. Dr. Chakraborty presented the findings of this study during the NIPFP Annual State Finances meeting at the India International Centre, New Delhi, in August 2019. The other members of the team are Prof. Lekha Chakraborty, Dr. Manish Gupta and Ms Amandeep Kaur. The theme paper on budget credibility was presented by Lekha Chakraborty at the 75th meeting of the International Institute of Public Finance in Glasgow, Scotland, in 21-23 August 2019. The completed project report was published as a NIPFP monograph in 2020.