The recently released fifth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) provides reliable and independent evidence to assess the micro-development performance of this government before Covid struck. The survey covers many dimensions of health, nutrition, and overall quality of lives. This piece focusses on two of those dimensions: Read more

Early data from the fifth round of the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS 5) indicates that the child sex ratio has unexpectedly declined in a number of states, with a reduction in the number of girls born per 1000 boys. This has happened despite the implementation of the nationwide ‘BetiBachaoBetiPadhao’ (BBBP) programme in 2015 that aims to prevent sex-selective abortions, Read more

According to a Forbes report, India has a little over 100 billionaires in 2020 – fourth highest in the world behind China (389) and the United States (614). A natural hypothesis would be to suppose that the number of billionaires is related to the size of the economy. Popov (2018) examined this relationship in a cross-country regression. We see that India has more billionaires than would be predicted by GDP Read more