Yamini Aiyar is a senior visiting fellow at the Saxena Center for Contemporary Studies and the Watson Institute, Brown University, United States of America.
An insightful account of the ideas, principles, and political realities that have shaped India’s unique welfare state. 'Making India Work' deepens our understanding of how evolving economic…
Since it was created in 2015, NITI Aayog has neither been able to offer fresh thinking on the economy nor has it functioned as a a mediator between the centre and the states. A federal institution…
Citizens denied the benefits of growth are compensated with direct transfers in the new welfarism that has yielded electoral returns. This 'techno-patrimonialism' is not based on the poor…