We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …

India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian … economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has … they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after India's independence. We then look to the future, using the …

While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …

seasonal forecasts of monsoon weather. We find that in areas where the forecast is accurate (has "skill") that investment …, migration and rural wages respond to forecasts. We calculate that if such skill were pervasive across India, the total value of … an accurate forecast for farmers and wage workers is in the tens of billions of rupees …

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 …

the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting …