Desai Diaries

Empower our cities As the economy grows, city governance must become a central part of our long-term development strategy Nitin Desai How large is India’s urban population? According to the 13-year-old 2011 Census, the percen....Read More

In every large and diverse country, federalism matters not just for political stability but also for economic development. The decentralisation of authority to provincial and sub-provincial levels for designing development policies and programmes can....Read More

The recent Bihar Caste Survey provides data about the links between caste and economic status that was not readily available earlier. It focuses on three measures: The incidence of income-linked poverty in a caste group, the proportioof the group hol....Read More

CARBON PRICING CHALLENGES by NITIN DESAI   Market-based solutions to carbon mitigation have spread rapidly, particularly since the Paris agreement of 2015. According to a recent World Bank report, they are now implemented or planned in 73 na....Read More

REIMAGINING CLIMATE FINANCE by NITIN DESAI     Climate change is once again emerging as the most critical challenge for global cooperation because of the widespread experience of adverse climate events. and the growing evidence of the ....Read More

VISIBLE HAND by NITIN DESAI   This month marks the tricentenary of the birth of Adam Smith, perhaps the most influential economic theorist of the capitalist market economy.  His concept of the invisible hand has shaped the....Read More