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Dumping Concerns amid Trade War and India-US Trade Deal
NO : WP-2025-011 AUTHOR : Himanshu Jaiswal and A. Ganesh-Kumar TITLE : Dumping Concerns amid Trade War and India-US Trade Deal ABSTRACT : The trade war initiated by the US has taken several twists. Now, the US imposes a baseline tariff on almost all countries, while the tariff fight between China and the […]
Private investment in education: Household response to a policy change in English as a second language by Bharti Nandwani and Gitanjali Sen
Macroeconomic outlook and medium-term growth prospect after the budget by Ashima Goyal
Indian industrial pricing under inflation targeting by Ashima Goyal and Vipasha Pandey
NO : WP-2025-010 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Vipasha Pandey TITLE : Indian industrial pricing under inflation targeting ABSTRACT : A puzzling characteristic of post-pandemic Indian inflation is the fall, within 10 years of adopting flexible inflation targeting (IT), in core inflation to lifetime lows despite high growth and recurrent commodity price shocks. […]
Understanding the role of greenfield and mergers & acquisitions foreign direct investments in renewable energy expansion in developing countries by Deepak Kushawaha
Mother’s Effective Literacy Status: Implications on Child Health by Surabhi Garg and Srijit Mishra
NO : WP-2025-009 AUTHOR : Surabhi Garg and Srijit Mishra TITLE : Mother’s Effective Literacy Status: Implications on Child Health ABSTRACT : Mother’s effective literacy status has instrumental importance in affecting child’s health outcomes. This is not to dismiss the relevance of a father’s literacy, but to posit a primitive that the father’s […]
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation in collaboration with IGIDR is organising a day long Data Users Conference at IGIDR, Mumbai on April 21, 2025.
When Low Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story: A Composite Indicator of Student Achievement by Japneet Kaur
NO : WP-2025-008 AUTHOR : Japneet Kaur TITLE : When Low Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story: A Composite Indicator of Student Achievement ABSTRACT : This paper introduces a new composite indicator of student achievement, grounded in an axiomatic framework. Unlike conventional measures that assign equal weight to all subjects, our index applies […]