Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar Laveesh Bhandari Bibek Debroy
This report seeks to measure economic freedom in different Indian states to show how this improves economic outcomes. Economic freedom is a concept first used by the Fraser Institute to measure the extent to which governments constrain efficient decision making and distort resource allocation. It has been used in cross-country literature to show that countries with higher levels of freedom have better development indicators. However, attempts to capture economic freedom at the subnational level of state governments are rare, although very pertinent in a federal country like India. Many areas...
This report seeks to measure economic freedom in different Indian states to show how this improves economic outcomes. Economic freedom is a concept fi...