Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Do Steep Price Increases destroy Markets? Do Steep Price Increases destroy Markets? The Case of Housing Market in India In the housing market, we define affordability as the House Price to Income Ratio. The Reserve Bank of India in its Residential Asset Price Monitoring Survey, July 11,…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Perspective Essence of Frame Reflection: Distinguishing between Disagreement and Intractable Controversy Essence of Frame Reflection: Distinguishing between Disagreement and Intractable Controversy I have put together this note to introduce the idea of ‘frame reflection’ and how it allows us to discover each other’s ‘frame of reference’ or ‘mental model’…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies The Growth Paradox: Resolution through Change in ‘Frames for Choices’ The Growth Paradox: Resolution through Change in ‘Frames for Choices’ Our inaugural Conclave last year had focused on making choices in a growth-constrained, information-age economy. Senior business and academic leaders had discussed about the structural and cyclical factors…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Government Spend, Economic Growth, Deficits and Inflation in India: An Analysis of Aggregates Government Spend, Economic Growth, Deficits and Inflation in India: An Analysis of Aggregates India is a low-middle income country, with nearly 2/3rd of its population living in rural areas. It is a young country…
Home Organisation Choices Publications Analytical Studies Analysis of Business Performance Practice A business leader or a manager needs to review his or her business’ performance from market as well as organisational perspectives. Our approach to analysis of business performance covers the following 3 aspects: Market, includes reviewing the performance from customer and competitive perspective. Operational, includes the…
Home Organisation Choices Research Publications Perspectives Managing Costs to Manage Growth & Profitability I consider managing cost to be as important as managing growth. Since costs are inputs for generating sales, we expect them to grow slower than sales. Only then the profitability, as measured by the margin on sales, will go up. In other words,…
Home Public Policy Choices Research Publications Analytical Studies Study of Economic Performance: The Case of India Economics is about earnings, consumption, savings and investment choices Macroeconomics studies aggregate values for many different variables in each of the above-mentioned areas. It is a study of level, structure and behaviour of aggregates, like any other variable of…
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