Samridhi Agarwal
@samridhi_ag
Senior Associate @Cegisofficial | MSc Economics @bse_barcelona | Formerly Research Associate @CPR_India
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https://cprindia.org/people/samridhi-agarwal/ 05-05-2017 13:21:15
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I had asked in an April 2023 tweet thread whether the RBI inflation forecasting model should add heat shocks as an explanatory variable. A new report by Pranjul Bhandari shows that "temperatures have become far more useful than rains in forecasting food inflation"
We are delighted to have hosted the report launch of 'South Asia in a Changing World', a collaboration with Team C-Voter at IIC Delhi. We are deeply thankful to our panelists Suhasini Haidar, C. Raja Mohan, Aanchal Malhotra, PinakiChakraborty পিনাকীচক্রবর্তী पिनाकी चक्रवर्ती & Rahul Verma. Watch: youtu.be/P0DOSA5XIyA
Some years ago Michael Woolcock and I argued that the disciplinary monopoly held by economics World Bank Research and other places was bad for policy (and no one listened). jstor.org/stable/27800677 Today, an Financial Times editorial makes a similar (if ‘slightly weaker’) point on whether
Interesting piece by Ufuk Akcigit. The decline in public R&D spending may also have contributed to lower productivity growth, a point made by two really cool recent papers.
New Beginnings! A true privilege to be spending the year at the Saxena Center and Watson Institute, Brown University. Looking forward to an exciting stint, learning from the best Saxena Center @ Brown
Govt quietly dissolves a 14-member Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS) headed by eminent economist and former chief statistician of the country Pronab Sen, allegedly after its members questioned the delay in conducting the census. Jigeesh A. M. reports thehindu.com/news/national/…
Important article by Arvind Subramanian et al: Predictions of an enormous GST bounty have not been realized. States have experienced a fiscal bonanza while the union has not. Even after compensation ended, states avoided a fiscal cliff due to economic uptick epw.in/journal/2024/3…
As someone studying Indian ed policy, CPR India 's 'Policy document repository' is an absolute treasure trove! Some hard-to-find stuff, all in one place. Immensely grateful to Ritu Kochar and Priyadarshini Singh for their incredible work putting this together. cprindia.org/indian-educati…
Odisha Women on a Power Trip A small army of blue-sari-clad women march through dozens of villages in Odisha every week where they read meters, dole out bills and collect cash from shopkeepers and households. Read Rajesh Kumar Singh's deep dive on reforming India's creaking power
The The Economist writes on economic convergence citing this paper (scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.…) by Justin Sandefur Dev Patel and me: economist.com/finance-and-ec… from