Urvashi Prasad India’s Union Health Budget 2026-27 and the release of the country’s first evidence based lung cancer guidelines have sparked important conversations about whether our health system is keeping pace with global standards. These announcements are not just policy…
Here is a wish list of policy reforms that India desperately needs, and will give coherence to what has already been implemented. Some have been promised by the government but have not been delivered. Some merely need to leverage existing policy infrastructure and institutions.
What do you call someone who comes down like a tonne of bricks on ambitious youngsters with career aspirations but crumbles like a cookie in the face of a market-leading company flexing its dominance? The rest of the world terms them bullies. In India, we call them regulators.
True reforms would ensure a level playing field and boost public investments in education, healthcare and social security
In spite of the Agreement being presented officially as win-win, it is one-sided.
The Union Budget 2026-27 lacks a clear vision which will neither resolve the current problems faced by the economy nor will it help meet the global challenge ahead.
The IMPRI Center for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE) at the IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, organized a thematic discussion on Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026-27 as a part of the 7th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2026-27 which was held on 7th February 2026.