(Co-authored with Lekha Chakraborty)

The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs’ (UNOOSA) Space4Women Landmark Study (2025) documents a persistent gender imbalance in public space organisations worldwide: with women constituting approximately only 30% of the global workforce in public space agencies, a figure that declines sharply to 19 percent at …

(Co-authored with R. Kavita Rao)

Banks have been a major source of financing for investment and working capital especially for large firms in India. Changing pattern of resource mobilisation for these firms – with a shift in favour of own resources and the bond market – could have some implications …

(Co-authored with Pramod Sinha)

Even as exports face difficulties, sari endures as more than fabric—a repository of memory, identity and quiet resilience

In December 1975, a newspaper editorial mentioned India’s sari exports for the fiscal year 1974-75¹. Valued at just over Rs 7.5 crore—equivalent to roughly $9 million …

As India approaches the Union Budget for 2026-27, the fiscal landscape is poised at a critical juncture. With the economy recovering from global disruptions and aiming for sustained high growth, the budget presents an opportunity to recalibrate policy frameworks in line with developmental imperatives.

Drawing from my research on public …

(Co-authored with R. Kavita Rao)

Trends in corporate investment

Indian policy makers are focused on addressing slowdown in private investment. As increase in investment can spur long term growth. In terms of composition, share of private non-financial corporate investments in gross capital formation remained largely unchanged in the last decade, …