My research on economic divergence among India' states, with Praveen Chakravarty, features in this week's Economist.

https://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21727867-economists-are-baffled-arguing-poorer-states-should-be-catching-up

Much media coverage of the Ease of Doing Business Report. Here, page 1, above the fold, in this morning's Mint.

http://www.livemint.com/Politics/CanjTwmgHX7FE6PgPZ5gXO/Regulatory-reform-fails-to-cut-red-tape-NITI-Aayog.html

Today in Delhi, NITI Aayog/IDFC Institute released the survey of enterprises, a project two years in the making. I was co-lead researcher along with two other colleagues. The link is below.

http://www.idfcinstitute.org/knowledge/publications/reports/ease-of-doing-business/

Writing in Mint, I argue that calls to weaken the rupee are misguided, and are batting for the interests of domestic industry, not consumers or the economy as a whole.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/6Xe8JxAhukvO3umuooK5JM/Calls-to-weaken-rupee-are-misguided.html

My latest Mint column argues that the RBI's monetary policy committee has been right to be cautious in cutting rates.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/1NZkPepj6aeETkQqsc7sSN/Cut-the-monetary-policy-committee-some-slack.html

Praveen Chakravarty and I explore the political economy of centre-state relations in India in a new publication from the Hindu Centre in Chennai.

http://www.thehinducentre.com/publications/policy-watch/article9808532.ece