Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from … correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem … lower electricity prices Even with multiple market failures, emissions pricing remains the single most cost-effective option …

Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now …, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural …

and a sizeable portion of budgetary support goes towards fertiliser subsidy. Fertiliser subsidy in India has succeeded in … fertiliser subsidy in India: (1) rising amounts of fertiliser subsidy in the budget and how far they are financially sustainable … and Korea, or now emerging economies like China and India. The type of support, of course, varies widely across countries …

trust in the performance of government agencies. We developed an original survey taken during the first COVID-19 wave that … includes randomized experiments with pandemic-related treatments. We document that individual-level trust in coworkers, other …-sharing, and policy attitudes, such as openness to technological innovations in public service delivery. Trust is more strongly …

, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …Remuneration-post-verification subsidies and microcredit have been postulated as potential solutions to imperfect … combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …

India's graduation from the ranks of low-income countries, making it ineligible under the WTO rules to grant export … subsidies on manufactures has thrown up a new policy challenge. In this context, this paper argues for the government to rethink … export competitiveness but do not constitute subsidies at all under the WTO Agreement. First, it should introduce a …