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Towards an Income Tax Revolution

The economy provides scope and demonetisation, the rationale for a flat income tax rate and a negative income tax for the poor and the needy.

Financing basic income for the bottom 50 per cent

A political and economic masterstroke would be for the Union budget to contain a basic income scheme for the bottom 50 percent — the poor and lower middle class

PLUs deafened by the Big Bang

Make no mistake — demonetisation is an important first step in what will be remembered as India’s biggest reform.

Demonetisation dispassionately demystified

Politicians shouting shrill about demonetisation augur well for the prospects of a new demonetised India. It indicates that the initiative is working

Black cash in India

Rumours of even a 1 percentage point decline in GDP growth for 2016/17 are vastly exaggerated, have no basis in logic or fact.

Food, Hunger, and Nutrition in India: A Case of Redistributive Failure

Submitted to the Brookings Institution’s Ending Rural Hunger Project

Big bang or big thud?

Demonetisation will have no benefits if the government does not follow up with tax reforms, reduce discretionary powers of bureaucrats and reform election laws

Anti-black money initiative could mean a policy reform bigger than GST

The recent anti-corruption, anti-black money drive of the BJP is being characterised by the same intellectually old people as being against the interests of the poor.

Caste Reservations: Half Pregnant Constitution, Half Pregnant State

This paper examines the logic, legality and practice of education and job reservations for the backward castes and classes.