India Public Finance and Policy Report
The India Public Finance and Policy Report is a flagship endeavour of the Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy. It is unique in its objective which is to showcase contemporaneous issues in public finance and public policy from a national and a global perspective. The India Public Finance and Policy Report is non-technical, reader-friendly, and is aimed at a broad range of audiences, from academics to policy makers. Till date, the following volumes of the India Public Finance and Policy Report are published:
The inaugral volume titled India Public Finance and Policy Report 2016 Fiscal Issues and Macro Economy is published in 2016. It presents a comprehensive survey of fiscal policies in India from post independence period up to present times and discusses a range of contemporary issues on fiscal policies and its implications for the economy. It discusses issues like the current fiscal performance of the different states, impact of demography on issues related to public finance and public economics, and interdependencies of fiscal policies across South Asian countries, assessing the fiscal performance of states using a constructed fiscal index. The report also provides a detailed statistical appendix on various facets of the Indian economy.This report provides an in-depth understanding of the fiscal policy of an emerging economy.
The second volume titled India Public Finance and Policy Report Health Matters contextualizes the nature of health crises in India. It discusses some of the most crucial issues faced by Indian health sectors and examines alternatives for policymakers to provide affordable, reliable, and effective health care facilities to the people. This report compares three government-run social health insurance schemes-the Swasthya Sathi Scheme, the Aarogyasari Community Insurance Scheme, and a community-based health insurance scheme-to examine their effectiveness in reducing household's vulnerability to health shocks. Additionally, it brings to light the manipulation of health package deals by private hospitals to increase the amount patients spend on them. The report also estimates the inefficiencies across states and districts of India with regard to health care personnel and infrastructure. This report presents a series of interviews with different stakeholders associated with the health care system, such as doctors, nurses, patients, and medical representatives, who discuss the problems that perturb this sector. Written in a lucid and non-technical language, this is a deeply researched theoretical and empirical commentary about health care and public polices in India.Periodicals
Over the course of time, the Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy has also come up with several analytical and policy related studies. It has published several newsletters, reports and policy briefs.