India is the only large country in the world that is experiencing subnational income divergence ...
Within most of the large states, the economic gap between richer and poorer districts is widening, not narrowing ...
In another decade from now, it is likely that the per capita income of the richest state will be more than four times the per capita income of the poorest state ...
One day in 1974, the American economist Arthur Laffer went to lunch at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. with two senior ...
A legal ceiling can force governments away from indirect taxes like the GST towards collecting direct taxes like income tax more efficiently. ...
Avoid generating higher tax revenue through indirect taxes that hit the poor the hardest, write Ajit Ranade and Praveen Chakravarty ...