Looks excellent. Covers some of the most important issues facing the Indian economy today.

I am pleased to announce that Niloufer Siddiqui has been awarded the prestigious 'Robert A. Dahl Award' from APSA for her outstanding work in the book "UNDER THE GUN". Congratulations! 📚 cup.org/4gfxmq7

New paper alert! We conduct a quasi-experimental study to investigate the association between toilet construction under India's Swachh Bharat Mission and infant and child mortality nature.com/articles/s4159…

The World Bank's overview of India's econ policy situation. Captures the good, bad, and ugly. Good: Econ growth, urban employment, FPI inflows, low inflation Bad: FDI stalled, CAD, trade Ugly: Trade protections; low focus on low-skill mfg sectors documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

ICYMI: 🚨Center for Global Development is hiring🚨 Senior fellows / fellows Could be the biggest hiring round in my many years here, as Rachel Glennerster takes the reins this week as our new president. Esp. looking for ppl in: health development finance education agriculture, & climate

This is a shocking statistic --> Of the 29,400+ partisan offices in the United States with elections in 2022--from U.S. senator to members of local airport district boards--fewer than half (14,450) only had one candidate contesting. nytimes.com/2024/09/04/us/…

Chart: Olympic success and economic strength ft.com/content/4d8e01…

🔔 New Episode of #InterpretingIndia! Join Janka Oertel, director of the Asia programme at ECFR, and Shibani Mehta as they explore the evolving Europe-China relationship, #China's assertive policies, and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on Europe’s de-risking strategy. 🎧

.Pranay Kotasthane & Sarthak Pradhan on how to resolve India's fiscal federalism dilemma theprint.in/opinion/indias…

"MAHARISHI stands for 'Millets And OtHer Ancient Grains International ReSearcH Initiative'. As an employee of The Economist, Banyan is contractually obliged to appreciate wordplay. But there are limits." economist.com/asia/2024/09/0…

.The Economist reviews the new book by Rahul Bhatia, "The New India" economist.com/culture/2024/0…

.The Economist: Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening economist.com/business/2024/…

"India is the world’s biggest mango producer, with volumes greater than the next nine growers combined...Yet its share of the global export market by value is a meagre 7%. Mexico, which produces a tenth as much as India, accounts for a quarter." economist.com/culture/2024/0…

Excellent use of unit-level data of the latest consumption expenditure survey (and well-argued by Ishan Anand) — how to read the top court judgement on sub-quotas, through numbers. In today's Mint Plain Facts; subscribe for the full piece: livemint.com/economy/suprem…

Good piece from Prashant Jha on the Quad's legacy under Biden, as seen through the eyes of two top USG officials hindustantimes.com/india-news/bid…

🧵 At Data For India, our goal is to advance public understanding. My colleagues Abhishek Waghmare and Pragnya worked for two months to understand India's new household spending data before we started writing about it. We don't do news - we are creating durable knowledge resources.

Looking forward to this The GCSP conversation on India on September 30 w/ james crabtree, Pankaj Saran, Nico Luchsinger & Christina Schori Liang. You can register here: gcsp.ch/events/india-n…

Very useful piece by Konark Bhandari outlining what the new Security of Supply Arrangement (SOSA) between the United States and India does--and does not--mean. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/09/…

"While concentration of economic opportunities in the South is leading to migration moving southward, the concerns around replacement migration are unfounded. A bulk of labour mobility is circular and not permanent." theindiaforum.in/economy/southw…

Beg: The "electoral marginalisation of Muslims is not restricted to the BJP...other political parties have been equally reluctant to field Muslim candidates, due to the fear of being charged with ‘minority appeasement.’" theindiaforum.in/politics/decli…