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IMPRI, a startup research think tank, is a platform for pro-active, independent, non-partisan and policy-based research. It contributes to debates and deliberations for action-based solutions to a host of strategic issues. IMPRI is committed to democracy, mobilization and community building.
  • Joined: October 30, 2020
  • Articles: 2399

Manmohan Singh: Pioneering India’s Global Growth and Digital Transformation

It is conventional wisdom to hail Manmohan Singh as the author of India’s economic reforms. This is misconceived. That credit goes to PV Narasimha Rao. Only a prime minister can strategise and execute a paradigm shift in the nation’s economic policy. He would need a number of technocrats to carry out that job intelligently, and Manmohan Singh, as Rao’s finance minister led a team of able technocrats, among whom we should note the likes of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Shankar Acharya and C Rangarjan at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank. To call Manmohan Singh the author of economic reforms is like saying that contract manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron make the iPhone, and not Apple.

Avoid Selective Invocations of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Legacy

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote: “Reservation… will promote inefficiency and mediocracy.” I often wonder if this was a reason for denying B R Ambedkar a dignified space in the corridors of power. Did the Congress think so little of us, the Dalits? Did Ambedkar resign because he felt neglected or because he became the voice of Dalits and women?

EPF Pension Controversy: Accountability and the Role of the Central Provident Fund Commissioner

TK ARUN Should the Central Provident Fund Commissioner be sent to jail? He is culpable of multiple offences: one, contempt of the Supreme Court, two, administering mental torture to about 17 lakh pension applicants who have applied for higher pension,…

Fellows Profile and Research Topics: Public Policy Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Fellowship- Cohort 4.0

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Public Policy Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Fellowship- Cohort 4.0 | An Online National Winter School Program | A Five-Month Online Immersive Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Certificate Fellowship | September 2024–January 2025 | IMPRI #WebPolicyLearning Fellows Profile Name  Designation Organisation Research Topic Hetvi Account Executive…

Global Power Dynamics and Terrorism: The Resurgence of the Syrian Conflict

West Asia is never quiet. As if the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon are not enough, let alone the simmering ones in Libya, Yemen, and Sudan, the past week’s conflagration in Syria has yet again proved that the causes of conflict must also be definitively addressed, especially when a highly complex situation is allowed to take deeper, divisive roots with external powers having their own axe to grind every step of the way.