Had a great time speaking with the economiga about my journey in economics, the role of policy research, and the evolving opportunities in this space. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_N11_…

While the USTR tariff calculator cites the findings from Cavallo, Gopinath, Neiman & Tang (2021) it is not entirely clear how they use our findings. Based on our research, the elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs is closer to 1. If that figure were used instead of

A personal musical journey provoked by the excellent Amazon Prime series Bandish Bandits, and in particular the Raga Marwa sung by the great Hindustani classical khayal singer Ustad Amir Khan in Scroll.in: scroll.in/article/108097…

A piece by Kartikeya (कार्तिकेय) josh felman and me in Business Standard on discrepancies between production and expenditure estimates of GDP growth in India, their implications and the commendable effort to use GST data to improve GDP estimation: business-standard.com/opinion/column…

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Merit sustains as an idea because it's never judged like Reservations are. A blunder or corrupt practice or inefficiency or crime by a person from majority religion/caste/race/gender is seen in isolation but a similar act by someone in minority (even a cricket match loss) is

Piece in Project Syndicate with Navneeraj Sharma, Abhishek Anand and Praveen Ravi on exit by big businesses as a force for driving change in India’s electricity sector

The stealth reform of India’s electricity-distribution sector could force the country’s public utilities to choose between reform or irrelevance, argue Arvind Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, and others. bit.ly/4mrTY9c

The electrification of India’s economy remains a work in progress because transmission and distribution are in the hands of highly inefficient public-sector incumbents, note Arvind Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, and others. bit.ly/4mrTY9c

Large business groups in India are leveraging declining solar and storage costs to generate and transmit their own clean electricity, thereby exiting from the public system, explain Arvind Subramanian, Abhishek Anand, and others. bit.ly/4mrTY9c

#Take2WithBS | With #AI’s power demand rising, renewables are set to shape competitiveness. #China is on track for 50% clean power by 2028, while #India, despite meeting its 2030 capacity target early, lags peers in solar & wind share.

.Arvind Subramanian, Navneeraj Sharma, Abhishek Anand & Praveen Ravi note #India’s slower progress is linked to loss-making state-run utilities, populist subsidies, and higher #tariffs for industry that limit #privatesector participation.

The authors highlight a shift as large firms expand captive renewable capacity, enabled by falling solar & storage costs and legal backing — a development that could reshape #India’s electricity landscape. Full story👉 mybs.in/2epHJQe #AI #EnergySector

Presenting #ASixthOfHumanity by #DeveshKapur and Arvind Subramanian — an ambitious rethinking of how India, home to one-sixth of humanity, has followed a uniquely ‘precocious’ path to development. Rigorously researched, carefully argued, and lucidly written, this is the definitive

Devesh Kapur & I are pleased that, after 4-5 years of researching & writing & decades of reflection, our HarperCollins book on 75 years of Indian development (A SIXTH OF HUMANITY) will be out in October Announcement: harpercollins.co.in/blog/announcem… Pre-order: amazon.in/dp/9369891099?…

Another self-evidently immediate pre-order, just this week. And this one really merits the blurb "definitive book on the development history of [independent] India"

It was a pleasure to deliver this lecture in honor of Mr. Manoj Srivastava an exceptionally well regarded IAS officer

The PM's call to reform the GST is commendable But rate CUTS are unnecessary & undesirable Unnecessary because: Rates have already been cut & are now 4-5 %age points less than pre-GST (from ~15 to ~11%) Reviving economy needs structural reform not tax cuts 1/

Undesirable because: Cuts would lead to a reduction in overall size of GST kitty which would lead to contentious jockeying for resources between Center and the states. If cesses are retained, this would make GST 2.0 as messy & rife with bad incentives as GST 1.0 2/

GST rate structure needs rationalization. That would be desirable structural reform The new structure could be as I had proposed here: gstcouncil.gov.in/sites/default/… adapted to present: Standard rate of 12-13%, lower rate of 6-8% & demerit rate of ~40% w/ all cesses folded into it