India

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Blog Post
The World’s Next Factory Won’t Be in South Asia
October 07, 2019
The region is losing out to Africa and elsewhere in the race to attract manufacturing investment.
Blog Post
More than the Sum of their Parts: How an ID, a Phone, and a Bank Account Can Help Achieve the SDGs
September 23, 2019
As the United Nations General Assembly meets this week, global leaders will be taking stock of their countries’ progress towards the SDGs and mapping out where they still have to go. Our research has shown that, together, financial accounts, ID, and mobile phones can facilitate a wide variety ...
CGD NOTES
Building on Digital ID for Inclusive Services: Lessons from India
September 13, 2019
India has emerged as a leader in building on its biometric digital ID to reform service and program delivery. It moved quickly to consolidate the rollout of Aadhaar, and then to embed the unique Aadhaar number into program databases. A range of applications, including digital signature and payments,...
WORKING PAPERS
Digital Governance: Is Krishna a Glimpse of the Future? (Working Paper)
June 27, 2019
The state of Andhra Pradesh is recognized as a leader in using technology to improve the delivery of public services, programs and subsidies. This paper reports on research to better understand the functioning and effectiveness of its reforms to strengthen state capacity by digitalizing service deli...
CGD NOTES
Modicare Post-Election: Recommendations to Enhance the Impact of Public Health Insurance on UHC Goals in India
May 11, 2019
Hailed as one of the largest publicly funded health insurance programs in the world, India’s “Modicare” has, since its launch a little more than six months ago, made universal healthcare coverage an election theme for the first time in the country’s history. 
WORKING PAPERS
Who Benefits from Pharmaceutical Price Controls? Evidence from India - Working Paper 509
April 23, 2019
With the goal of driving down drug costs, governments across the globe have instituted various forms of pharmaceutical price control policies. In this paper, we examine the theoretical and empirical effects of one implementation of pharmaceutical price controls, in which the Indian government placed...