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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

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Health at the Crossroads: Public Health in an Era of Global Transition

As 2025 draws to a close, viewed from the window of a public health professional, the year offers a clear reminder that health leadership is not merely about systems, policies, or technologies. It is about trust, continuity, and the courage to make long-term choices amid uncertainty.
The past year tested health systems worldwide. Economic volatility, geopolitical realignments, climate stress, and workforce pressures converged to expose long-standing vulnerabilities. India was not immune. Yet beyond the dominant crisis narratives, India’s health trajectory in 2025 tells a quieter and more consequential story, one of steady progress shaped by public investment, institutional memory, and the everyday work of frontline systems.

Union Budget 2026–27: India’s Budget Masks Jobs And Growth Faultlines

The IMPRI Center for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE), Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted an interactive panel discussion on “Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026–27” on February 7, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. IST under IMPRI’s 7th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2026–27, bringing together leading economists and policy researchers to examine the growth outlook, fiscal strategy, labour-market pressures and structural reforms embedded in the latest Budget.

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Urbanisation Trends in India’s Small Towns

The story so far: India continues to narrate its urban future through the loud vocabulary of megacities. But a quieter and far more consequential transformation is unfolding. Of India’s nearly 9,000 census and statutory towns, barely 500 qualify as large cities. The overwhelming majority are small towns, with populations below 1,00,000. This proliferation of small towns is a structural product of India’s capitalist development — and of its crisis.

India and the 28th CSPOC

India and the 28th CSPOC: Parliamentary Democracy in a Fragmented Global Order

The Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth has emerged as a unique institution that upholds parliamentary independence and is non-partisan, even as it derives much from the Westminster system and traditions, and underscores the neutrality and authority of speakers.

What’s wrong with the SHANTI Act and how it can be fixed

What’s wrong with the SHANTI Act and how it can be fixed

The government should have referred the Bill to a parliamentary committee to iron out differences, instead of using its legislative majority to pass it as introduced.

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