Learning from America (New York Times)
The New York Times published non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur’s opinion piece on what India can learn from America.
View ArticlePoor Countries Can End Up Benefiting When Their Brightest Citizens Emigrate...
Senior fellow Michael Clemens and non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur's work on migration was featured in an article in The Economist.
View ArticleStudy on Poll Funds Says Cement Sales Linked to Elections (Indian Express)
Non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur and visiting fellow Milan Vaishnav's study on builders and campaign election finance was featured in an article in The Indian Express.
View ArticleCorruption in India’s Health Sector: Let’s Look at the Bigger Picture
Corruption in India’s Health Sector: Let’s Look at the Bigger Picture9/19/11For weeks now, the Indian press has been awash with stories of corruption plaguing the health sector of Uttar Pradesh (UP),...
View ArticleQuid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working...
Quid Pro Quo: Builders, Politicians, and Election Finance in India - Working Paper 276 updated12/7/11In developing countries where elections are costly and accountability mechanisms weak, politicians...
View ArticleCementing Corrupt Political Relationships (Wall Street Journal)
Research fellow Milan Vaishnav and non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur's paper on concrete and corruption in India was featured on the WSJ's Review blog.
View ArticleRemittances and Rashomon - Working Paper 285
Remittances and Rashomon - Working Paper 2851/23/12In this working paper, the authors find that remittances are often greatly underestimated in surveys. They suggest ways to improve the collection of...
View ArticleCGD Non-Resident Fellow, Devesh Kapur, Wins Book Award
CGD Non-Resident Fellow, Devesh Kapur, Wins Book Award5/23/12Congratulations to CGD non-resident fellow Devesh Kapur whose terrific book, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of...
View ArticleRenewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt - Working Paper...
Renewable Resource Shocks and Conflict in India’s Maoist Belt - Working Paper 3028/6/12The authors conduct a rigorous econometric analysis of a civil conflict that the Indian Prime Minister has called...
View ArticleIndia’s 4-10s: The New Not-Poor Not-Middle Class -- and Its Implications?
India’s 4-10s: The New Not-Poor Not-Middle Class -- and Its Implications?11/19/12I was in Delhi recently for the launch of CGD’s India Initiative.
View ArticleThe Wrongs of Rights (Business Standard)
Business Standard publishes op-ed by Devesh Kapur on India's "progressive schemes."From the article:
View ArticleIndia's Unique Crisis - I (Business Standard)
Another measure to finance the current account promoted by the financial community has been to defend the currency via tighter policy. The government and the Reserve Bank of India have - fitfully and...
View ArticleRebuilding the Indian State (Business Standard)
CGD Fellows Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur co-author a column about economic growth and inclusion in India.
View ArticleA Targeted Approach: India's Expanding Social Safety Net (World Politics Review)
CGD Non-Resident Fellow Devesh Kapur co-writes about approaches to the social safety nets for India's poor.
View ArticleIndia’s Gold Fetish and Switzerland’s Data Secrecy (technical slides)
In this technical presentation Devesh Kapur, Marla Spivack, Arvind Subramanian, and Milan Vaishnav use trade data to search for an explanation for three intriguing facts about Indian gold imports.
View ArticleRethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank - Working Paper 352
Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank - Working Paper 3521/27/14Since their inception, through 2012, the institutions comprising the World Bank group have been involved in lending nearly a...
View ArticleDevesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian: A property tax proposal (Business Standard)
From the article: In our last piece, we had argued that taxation is the economic glue that binds citizens to the state in a necessary two-way relationship. A citizen's stake in exercising diminishes if...
View ArticleAmerica’s Neglected Financial Children (Project Syndicate)
This week, the US Congress again failed to approve a modest appropriation that would have shored up financing for the International Monetary Fund and given China and other emerging economies greater...
View ArticleEscape from the World Bank
Escape from the World BankBlog Post10/27/15The elephants in the room at the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Lima, Peru, were the China-inspired Asian Infrastructure Investment...
View ArticleIndia’s 4-10s: The New Not-Poor Not-Middle Class -- and Its Implications?
India’s 4-10s: The New Not-Poor Not-Middle Class -- and Its Implications?Blog Post11/19/12I was in Delhi recently for the launch of CGD’s India Initiative.
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