Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Amita Singh An age-old debate that kept scholars, citizens, administrators, and politicians equally worried is about the capacity to govern. In older Indian archives Kautilya’s Arthshashtra presented a blueprint for Chandragupta Maurya’s governance and linked money, military, and markets to…
Mohan Chandra Pargaien For carbon sequestration, India must revisit its policy framework and reverse fading participation of local communities India’s pledge to set a net-zero target by 2070, at the COP26 summit, Glasgow, has again highlighted the importance of forests…
T K Arun Governance, inclusive politics and broad based growth are vital for the lot of subaltern groups to improve, but the BJP has proved that it is programmatically incapable of inclusive growth in Uttar Pradesh (UP). When you see…
Devender Singh COVID 19 refuses to go away. One thing that it has taught us is that timely advance preparedness is the key to fight it and to lessen its impact, and that the data is the cornerstone of the…
K.D. Maiti and Santosh Mehrotra The global sustainable development agenda demands that countries measure the population living in poverty and reduce it by at least half by 2030. So, in order to monitor progress on this critical development indicator, UNDP…
Mukul Asher Accelerating exports of agriculture products, and reducing their import dependence are among the key priorities for India. The agricultural sector’s export potential, which is considerable, has in the past not received sufficient policy focus and has not been…
Amiya Kumar Bagchi Cohesive development requires that human beings would cohere with one another, that they should live in harmony and thrive in health, education, cognitive development and have opportunities for doing the kind of work they like – being a…