, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts … concerning public debt and deficits in India, the background and basic arithmetic of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

The COVID-19 pandemic led to stark reductions in economic activity in India. We employ CMIE's Consumer Pyramids …

-income countries. We conduct a large phone survey and leverage India's geographically-varying containment policies to estimate the …

Official statistics on deaths in India during the COVID pandemic are either incomplete or are reported with a delay. To … overcome this shortcoming, we estimate excess deaths in India using the household roster from a large panel data set, the …% CI: 2.8M to 6.2M) excess deaths over 16 months during the pandemic in India. While we cannot demonstrate causality …

procurement decisions in the context of India. We compare 3 different allocation strategies (oldest first, highest contact rate … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …

We use a large, representative panel data set from India with monthly data on household finances to examine the … incidence of economic harms during the COVID pandemic. We observe a sharp spike in poverty, peaking during India's sharp but …

India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …

, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign in West Bengal, India. Twenty-five million individuals were sent an SMS …

. But for India, a developing country with great sectoral and occupational vulnerabilities, this dramatic reduction is more …