The Need for a Regulatory Sandbox

While India has had an average savings rate of more than 30 per cent during the eleventh and twelfth five-year plans, the overall savings rate is on the wane of late (see Figure 1). The trend of household savings is no different. Also, gross household financial savings as percentage of gross national disposable income (GNDI)…

A rather slow progression?

Indian policymakers realized the importance of revamping the land records management system during the latter half of 1980s. Since then, there have been various modernization programmes directed towards updating and computerizing the existing land records, digitizing all the cadastral maps, simplifying the process of transfer and registering of property. The first of these centrally-funded programmes…

Stalled Projects – An Update

The latest data released by CMIE shows that the value of stalled projects have risen from INR 9.66 trillion in 2015 to INR 13.22 trillion in September 2017.CMIE’s capex database is used as a leading indicator for tracking the health of India’s economy which, in turn, acts as an incentive for capacity expansion by new…