Current Issue
The paper by Shruti Gupta, Radha Malani, and Anoop Singh identifies how subsidy spending has been accounted for in India and explains the resultant data gaps that render such fiscal data inconsistent and incomparable across levels of government. Janak Raj, Rahul Ranjan, Vrinda Gupta, and Aakanksha Shrawan's study focuses on assessing the role of fiscal transfers from the Union government compared to states' own revenue in explaining their healthcare spending. Continuing with the public finance theme, Sajjid Chinoy, Toshi Jain, and Divyanit Sood propose a new, post-pandemic fiscal architecture built on five pillars that is anchored in debt and is holistic (encompassing Centre and states), dynamic (responsive to changing macro conditions and market signals), sustainable, and conservative. The paper by Pallavi Bajaj demonstrates how trade policy is not gender-neutral and suggests ways to counter the inherent disadvantages of social, institutional, and structural constructs, as well as access and capacity constraints specific to women. Finally, Jos Chathukulam reviews the book "Public Expenditure in India: Policies and Development Outcomes" by Gayithri Karnam.