The Leap Blog

by Ayush Patnaik, Ajay Shah, Anshul Tayal, Susan Thomas. Night lights is an opportunity to measure prosperity, using an eye in the sky, with...

by Ila Patnaik , Renuka Sane , Ajay Shah and S. V. Subramaniam. In health research, we study the causes and consequences of health at the in...

by Surbhi Bhatia, Manish Kumar Singh , Susan Thomas . We look at the geographical location of firms in the figure below. The map on the le...

by Natasha Agarwal. In 2016, global travel and tourism contributed US$7.6 trillion to world GDP and supported 292 million jobs worldwide (WT...

The news from Maruti is disgusting . I have been curiously watching  how the stock market takes it in : That Maruti has serious labo...

While everyone is pondering the ways in which Eurozone is not an optimal currency area, I found myself worrying about the ways in which ...

Ila Patnaik looks at what is happening in the CMIE Capex database on investment in Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pra...

An alternate history that I find interesting is a scenario where, in 1947, the British kept one city in India - e.g. Surat . This is analog...

Geographical patterns in investment planned out today are the geographical patterns in per capita GDP of coming years. Ila Patnaik reviews ...

What you measure is what you can manage. In thinking about public goods in India, achieving a sound public policy framework in India, and ap...

R. N. Bhaskar has written a three-part article in DNA about the decline of Maharashtra. This particularly caught my eye because I just noti...

Ila Patnaik summarises the CMIE Capex data on investment projects at hand in the states of India. The ranking, by the value of `under impl...

Evaluating two timezones and Daylight Saving Time for India , by Viral Shah & Vikram Aggarwal , August 2007. On a related subject, you...

In the EPW of 22 April 2006, I wrote this book review of Social & Economic Profile of India by Peeyush Bajpai, Laveesh Bhandari and Aal...

I loved the book From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman (1998) when I read it (at the time). After that, I enthusiastically bought and...