An autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Finance

 

WTO is the Phoenix in the New World Order

02/08/2018

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(This blog post was originally prepared for the External Services Division of All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Broadcast on August 2, 2018, All Units. http://airworldservice.org/ )
 
Do the recent retreat of globalization; US President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies, the US-China …

India Beats France in GDP: What does it mean?

17/07/2018

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(This post was originally prepared for External Services Division of All India Radio, broadcast on July 14, 2018.)
 
As per the World Bank figures for 2017, India has become the world’s sixth-biggest economy, after US, China, Japan, Germany and UK. India has pushed France to the …

The US–China Trade War Conundrum

25/06/2018

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(This was originally prepared for External Services Division of All India Radio, broadcast on June 25th 2018.)
 
The adverse trade relations between US and China are increasingly becoming a global irritant, especially when security and trade issues are hard to disentangle in the contemporary global …

Sectoral Spending Effectiveness of Gender Budgeting on Gender Equality and Fiscal Space

22/06/2018

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Gender budgeting is the process of applying a gender lens to public financial management, to analyse the gender components in public spending across all sectors - not only social sector budgets - and evaluate their outcomes. Gender neutral fiscal policy can turn gender-blind if there are no systemic corrections. 

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 …