Topic: Public policy
January 22, 2025
India’s Growth Targets: Plan in INR
IMC Journal (opens a pdf) GDP targets set in terms of a foreign currency can lead to unintended consequences: India must consider setting growth goals in its own currency India has experienced...
December 18, 2024
Urban growth takes a toll
Financial Express (two parts) India’s urbanization is expanding the geographical footprint of cities Tolling in what have become arterial roads in cities gets a pushback from citizens As...
December 02, 2024
IVCA GreenReturns Summit, 2024 – New Delhi
The inaugural two-day Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) GreenReturns Summit 2024 in Delhi on Dec 2-3 features a stellar set of speakers and panels The event covers a wide...
October 18, 2024
Green transition: Reducing the cost of capital
Financial Express The capital stack of green transition industries will continue to evolve as industries mature Reducing the cost of capital requires smart financial engineering Green...
October 08, 2024
SC Garg’s Explanation and Commentary on the Budget 2024-25
Book review Link to the book on Amazon There used to be the Nani Palkhivala lectures on the Indian Budget Thirty years after they ended in 1994, a new annual series of books by former Finance...
September 18, 2024
Mumbai’s Road to Resilience: Managing in a Climate Crisis
IMC Journal (opens a pdf) I am anxious I am anxious about traffic jams Every year in the winters, I drive between 2,000 and 4,000 kilometers across India The most stressful thing about a drive...
August 16, 2024
Green trifecta: Financing higher retail capex in a low greenium world
Financial Express Green transition (a) requires an increased share of investments by households, (b) creating an economy with higher capex and lower opex, and (c) without material green...
July 19, 2024
Creating India’s Climate Stack
Financial Express Data and models of climate change are required by society, business, and policymakers: building a tool which houses a common understanding can empower all stakeholders Digital...
July 03, 2024
Climate Policy Lab Academy 2024
A country makes big commitments at a mega climate event For its people and industries, it then announces many policies to meet its commitments How would you know if the policies (and their eventual...
June 18, 2024
Careers in economics and public policy
Career Day at OIS Last year and again this year, I gave a talk at Oberoi International School JVLR to the students of high school on careers in economics and public policy I highlighted five...
March 19, 2024
Union Finances: Budgeting for long-term macro stability
IMC Journal (page 7; opens a pdf) Long-term trends on revenues, expenses, and debt of Union government show (a) India’s path from subsidies to capex, (b) a more conservative fiscal stance,...
March 17, 2024
Holding up half the sky
The Financial Express The changing circumstances, choices, and careers of women in India will shape the outcomes on demographics, demand, and destiny We look at key macro trends to...
June 17, 2023
Mobilising Climate Finance Through Long-Term Currency Swaps
Akhilesh Tilotia and Jayant Sinha The Economic Times The global South requires trillions of dollars of private sector investments every year in climate mitigation, adaptation, and...
June 08, 2023
Green finance: Calibrating capital and regulations for different stages
Financial Express Climate adaptation, mitigation, and resilience require trillions of dollars of financing Green finance has hence caught the attention of companies, investors, regulators,...
February 13, 2023
India macro-2023: Prepare while the sun shines
Financial Express For the month of December 2022, the purchase manager index (PMI) for India was 594, almost touching multi-decadal highs PMI above 50 is taken to mean that an expansionary...
December 31, 2022
Crystal gazing global growth 2023
Indian Merchant's Chamber (IMC) [opens pdf] The last few years have conclusively shown that real outcomes are a lot more interesting than what even the most egregious forecasts can...
October 07, 2022
Reducing greenhouse gasses: Pathways to achieving the objective
Adding a monetary value to carbon can incentivize or disincentivize some sectors; setting performance standards can create a race for innovation Financial Express “Bending the...
June 23, 2022
Net Finance – A companion to Net Zero
The Financial Express India made five commitments at COP26: (1) it will increase its non-fossil energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030; (2) it will meet 50 percent of its energy requirements...
November 03, 2021
Shaping our Green Future: Pathways and Policies for a Net Zero Transition
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) put together a monograph on Shaping Our Green Future: Pathways and Policies for a Net-Zero Transformation 1 They pulled together a fantastic set of...
August 13, 2021
Financing the Green Transition
Financial Express New sources of capital and new instruments are required to power the green transition Green Transition is a reality: it is here and now The recent spate of...
July 12, 2021
Urban development and green finance: Blending two mega trends
Financial Express Writing on LinkedIn recently, Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi said, “The 15th Finance Commission and several academics have emphasised the crucial importance...
June 17, 2021
Attracting Large Pools of Capital for a Green Transition
Financial Express India is a signatory and strong advocate for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the only large country on track for emissions reduction...
May 09, 2021
Learnings from the digital Co-WIN app
Last weekend, I was part of a rather novel experience A group of us designed a portal that pulled data from the Co-WIN APIs to showcase where the vaccine slots were available This...
May 03, 2021
Modelling the vaccine market in India
A new chapter has opened up in India’s fight against Covid-19 with three big changes in April Starting May, vaccines are now available for all adults in India The central government is no longer...
May 02, 2021
Know when vaccine slots become available
Click here to check availability for slots for those in the 18-44 age range The full link is this: http://vaccineavailabilityatilotiacom/ Use filters to check whether...
April 25, 2021
‘Moving epicenters’ – preparing India for future waves of Covid
India faced a severe second wave of Covid-19 – actionable public policy recommendations to prepare ourselves better An unexpected, unprecedented 16X surge Around end March 2021,...
April 01, 2021
Net-zero will require a serious effort – now!
Book review of Bill Gates': "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" Financial Express This book should be a required reading for anyone interested in:• the “big picture” of greenhouse...
February 04, 2021
Annual report of IIMA Public Policy ASIG
I co-lead as an alumni coordinator the IIMA Public Policy Alumni Special Interest Group’s (PP ASIG) Learn more about the IIMA PP ASIG's activity highlights from 2020 in the #AnnualReport...
October 26, 2020
Larger incomes to tax or larger taxes on incomes?
Budget 2020 cares for people’s economic aspirations, says Axis Bank’s Akhilesh Tilotia India’s response to its dilemma will determine whether budgets of the next decade will have...
May 15, 2020
Building “digital cocoons” for the population
Covid-19 highlights the importance of and urgent need to build ‘digital cocoons’ for the whole population The Covid-19 series of lock-downs have brought very different experiences for...
September 05, 2019
Leveraging open data for policy making
Large digital databases like the GST Network can give granular insight, create predictive models; this can lead to more grounded interventions A lot has been said about the current economic...
