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1. Preliminary  1.1 The 5-Institute budget seminar on ‘The Union Budget 2019-20: Reforms and Development Perspectives’, was held on 22 July 2019. This seminar brought together five policy experts who shared their thoughts on the union budget 2019 (“Budget”) presented by the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government on 5 July 2019. The sessionRead more

 1. Introduction  Algorithmic bias (“AI bias”) is a phenomenon that occurs when “an algorithm produces results that are systematically prejudiced due to erroneous assumptions in the machine learning process.” One might be led into believing that artificial intelligence (“AI”) based tools should produce unbiased results given they are machine-driven; however, this myth needs to be bustedRead more

This post is the first in a series of three posts analysing the information technology (“IT”) ecosystem of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.   Introduction With over 4 billion people online[1], the internet has reshaped how we do business, communicate and conduct governance[2]. As the digital economy evolves, digital security has taken on a distinctRead more

1. Preliminary    1.1. The Ananta Aspen Centre held its second seminar in its ‘Economy & Policy’ series of events on 01 August 2019. The seminar was on the topic, ‘What are the priorities for the economic growth for India 2019-20? – The Union Budget and After’. This seminar brought together three economic policy expertsRead more

Aparna Sai and Ranajit Dam cover Ikigai Law’s views in their article “Start-up Nation” in the June edition of Asian Legal Business. The article discusses how the startup practice is evolving for law firms and how lawyers are playing a critical role in the development of the sector. Here are some excerpts: Anirudh Rastogi, founderRead more

1. Preliminary The union budget of India for the year 2019-2020 was presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 05 July 2019. This was the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government’s first budget. Shortly after Sitharaman’s presentation of the budget, IndiaSpend, a non-profit organization that uses open data to analyse India’s socio-economic issues, publishedRead more

1. INTRODUCTION   The Indian union budget was declared on 05 July 2019 by the finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman. This was the first budget presented by the Narendra Modi government in its second term. The budget speech is available here, highlights released by the union government are available here, the Finance Bill, 2019 is availableRead more

1. PRELIMINARY 1.1 The finance ministry presents the economic survey (“ES”) of India in the parliament every year before the union budget. This document is prepared by the finance ministry and the chief economic adviser. The ES presents the finance ministry’s views on the annual economic development of India. This post highlights major observations fromRead more

1. Introduction   The G20 Summit was held in Osaka, Japan on 28 and 29 June 2019. Prime minister Narendra Modi participated in nine bilateral meetings, eight pull-aside meetings, two plurilateral meetings namely, Japan-America-India (“JAI”) and Russia-India-China (“RIC”) and one multilateral meeting, comprising of Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (“BRICS”) in addition to four G20 meetings.   2.Read more

This is the second post[1] on our series on impact bonds (“IB”). It explores the similarities between public-private partnerships (“PPP”) and IBs. On this basis, it argues that India’s experience with PPPs can help pave the way for the use of IB as an instrument of impact investment[2] and delivery of social services. What areRead more