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Getting at the truth in Opinion Polls
This article takes as given the accuracy of opinion polls. It offers instead a suggestion towards improving forecasts of elections...
Lockdowns vs. COVID19: Covid Wins
Not only lockdowns were not effective, but that, in a large majority of cases, lockdowns were counter-productive i.e. led to...
Short CV
Surjit S. Bhalla is a former part-time member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Economic Advisory Council. In addition, he serves...
Citizen Raj: Indian Elections 1952-2019
It is the most definitive account of the history of Indian elections, chronicling the political and economic background against which...
Food, Hunger, and Nutrition in India: A Case of Redistributive Failure
Over the past 50 years, India has been a pioneer in discussing and introducing policies toward the alleviation of hunger...
Towards a Targeted Basic Income Policy for India
Most commentators have attributed the current agrarian crisis to two successive droughts and demonetization. While droughts do have an adverse...
Growth and Poverty in India – Myth and Reality
There is a raging controversy about whether poverty levels in India have increased in the nineties, a period co-incident with...
Population, Education, and Employment in India: 1983-2018
A background report on Employment in India for the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM)
What Ails GDP Growth: Demonetization or High Interest Rates?
GDP Growth in India has slowed down to less than 7%, from the recent high level of 8.2% in 2015-16....
A short note on the GDP back-series released by the National Statistical Commission
The Report’s conclusion of 9 % growth in UPA-I (2004/5-2008/9) maybe, in reality, close to 6 % per annum. More...