India Policy Forum is a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) that aims…
Fiscal policy is taking centre stage. Among advanced countries, the news is bad; Europe’s periphery teeters, the UK slashes, the US…
Writing exactly 130 years ago, Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged in A Plea for Gas Lamps that “Cities given, the problem was to light…
This paper investigates whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008-09 financial crisis. Rather…
A feud over trade has erupted in Washington, and American workers are caught in the middle. Congressional Republicans (and some Democrats)…
Turkey’s legal system was reformed significantly during the last decade, with
the avowed objective of aligning it with European norms and…
By now just about everybody agrees that the European bailout of Greece has failed (see for example Darvas et al. 2011). The debt will have…
India’s growth miracle has improved the lives and prospects of millions of people, but it is taking a toll on the country’s environment.…