Boycotting Chinese goods: Impractical and harms the national interest

Rent Control in Mumbai

By Shubham Paliwal

Demand and supply mismatch created by price ceilings causes poor and reduced accommodation for the lower income people.

The ‘Bombay Rents, Hotel and lodging House Rates Control Act, 1947’ served its purpose in the…

Allocative Efficiency vs. Social welfare

If perfect competition always leads to allocative efficiency, does it also lead to increased social welfare? If so, why does the government intervene in the markets in the first place and why does it have monopolies of its own?

Why are petrol prices not decreasing?

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Growth, Urbanisation, and Poverty Reduction in India

Despite a few issues in inequality, the process of urbanisation has been clearly important in poverty reduction in urban and rural India post 1991 reforms

Commercial models for Public Wi-Fi

Can we have a proliferation of broadband access through public Wi-Fi networks? What are the issues and challenges?