Blog Archives - Policy Monks

Mar 2021

A Digital Pathway To Financial Inclusion In India

At the beginning of this year, Jharkhand’s ‘Pre metric Scholarship Scam’ came to light. Many poor students were deprived of their scholarships by a nexus of government officials, intermediaries, and…

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Jan 2021

Navigating through a data-fluent ecosystem

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified organisations’ digital transformation, pushing them to digitise their operations, restructure their business models, facilitate access to data, and work on their workforce’s skill-up-gradation. This data-driven…

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Oct 2020

COVID-19 and Gig Workers: Need to democratize the Gig Economy in India

The Gig economy in India is in a state of conflict at the moment. The Covid-19 the epidemic has hit it hard, with some critics predicting the end of the…

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May 2020

Aarogya Setu App: A Tale of the Complex Challenges of a Rights-Based Regime

At a time when the whole world is grappling with ways to contain the novel coronavirus, the Indian government is pushing its population to download the Aarogya Setu application to…

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Feb 2019

Minimum Income Guarantee: A Utopian Ladder?

The wave of competitive populism is throwing in its daily tide of game-changing ideas, and a preemptive dose of doles to outbid each other. The only winner can be the…

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Mar 2018

Long-run Determinants of Sovereign Bond Yields

Keynes’s supposition of short-term interest rates as the key driver of long-term government bond yields is investigated for India, after controlling for various key economic factors. It is seen that…

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Feb 2018

Budget balances populism with prudence

The budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 1 was closely watched as it was the last full-year budget of the NDA government before the 2019 general elections.…

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Nov 2017

Air pollution in Delhi: Are we doing enough?

While India has drastically moved up in the Ease of Doing Business Rankings, it has also simultaneously earned the tag of being amongst the most polluted countries in the world,…

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Aug 2017

Professionals in Congress: Is it too little and too late

The Congress party has set up two new organisational departments to woo the middle class and financially weaker sections in a bid to revive its shrinking vote base. However the…

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Jun 2017

Time for taxing farm income has arrived

Agriculture is a politically sensitive subject in India. Particularly, any talk on agriculture income tax is a taboo against the backdrop of farmers’ protests, grievances and suicides. So, it was…

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