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by Bhuvana Anand and Shubho Roy . In the Indian policy discourse, there is a strand of thought which sees schools as aggressors and parents ...

by Shashank Bansal. Until recently, outsourcing by global financial firms to India conjured up an image of commoditised low end services...

The Economist runs a discussion forum titled The Economist By Invitation . In this, they recently setup a discussion ...

What should government do? In the question "What should government do?", economists have one big answer "do the public g...

by Parth Shah . One major initiative of the Indian government, in the field of education , was the Right to Education Act of 2009. This ...

India's education crisis is now high on our consciousness. In response to the recent developments, CNBC Awaaz did a four-hour s...

With the first release of OECD PISA results for India, and with the release of one more year of Pratham data, there has been an upsurge in ...

The debate Roughly one decade ago, there was a strong debate in India about how we should tackle the problem of education. There were t...

The Centre for Civil Society (CCS) is an independent public policy think tank based in New Delhi working on research, advocacy and outreach ...

I have an article in Financial Express today about the challenges and the opportunities of the budget speech.

To economists, the role of government is to deliver `public goods'. A public good is something that is non-rival and non-excludable. So...

Read Ila Patnaik on this proposed law. While on this subject, you might like to see my five-part classification scheme on education policy...

In the early 1990s, if you had looked at the potential for an IT industry in India, the answer could easily have been: "Not possible, b...

Given India's terrible elementary and higher education system (ponder the implications of this also), a greater emphasis on certificat...

Michael Walton has a good opinion piece in Financial Express on the subject of inequality in India. He starts out with the eminent good se...

by Ajay Shah.   In judging what a university does to a student, the key problem lies in distinguishing differences in raw material vs. diffe...

There is a chorus of protest amongst employers in the country about the high price of skilled labour and high staff turnover. Some people th...

Business World has an editorial titled Reservations as cancer where they say that reservations were always unjust -- now they create only ...

We generally think that workers in India are good at the quant stuff. But is this just stereotype, or is it real? On one hand, 12th standard...