The rise of cities such as Gurugram, Hosur, Sri City is interesting because they are leveraging their proximity to larger cities in a neighbouring state -- New Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai. This has implications for economic geography as well as Indian federalism. (1/7)

The horror of touching the spoon on the bin when disposing of a tea bag. Another spoon will now be on stirring duty. A pure spoon.

A forecast relying on two variables -- economic data from 125 days prior to the election & presidential approval data from 104 days (or more) before the election -- basically called the 2024 U.S. presidential election cambridge.org/core/journals/…

What will it take to deliver on India’s economic growth aspirations? Artha Global was privileged to be asked by Bombay Chamber to articulate a road map. No surprise to anyone who knows our work — the path to #ViksitBharat runs through India’s cities. 🌃 🚆

“Our lack of safeguards for data that businesses collect and process is an urgent problem waiting to be addressed,” writes Sridhar Ganapathy, Principal at Artha Global in his latest article for Mint. bit.ly/41yynVh

Over half of the residents of India’s five largest cities missed a day of work due to high temperatures. However, this climate-induced loss of productivity is far more likely to afflict poorer communities (as measured by asset ownership). Fascinating findings from Artha Global.

Thanks Subhashish Bhadra. Totally agree. Roughly 50 percent of India’s workforce works outdoors, and there are staggering health and productivity impacts of rising heat stress. Keen to see how we can support cities to address it. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Artha Global

No words, just immense gratitude and respect for the man who transformed all our lives and led and lived with such grace and dignity. Thank you, Dr Singh. Guru Rakha 🤍

Diva Jain Bang on target. This is a chart that the Artha Global team used in a comprehensive report we did on Viksit Bharat

💠Join us Thursday! First 'Climate Talk' in Mumbai focusing on Cities of Tomorrow. 👉We explore transformative strategies and innovative approaches to making our cities liveable and sustainable. 📅Jan 30th, 5:00 PM. Panelists include Mr Abhijit Ghorpade Abhijit Ghorpade, Ms

Our Centre for Rapid Insights was delighted to collaborate with Ministry of Finance on the important Q of female labour force participation and consumption in rural India. More here: bit.ly/4h8FF73 Neelanjan Sircar Priya Vedavalli Artha Global Reuben Abraham Sonalde Desai

Some very interesting takeaways from this survey. Among them: - The increase in female labour force participation is driven by financial need. So not really a signal of improved work acceptance / ease-of-work for women workers. - There is evidence of higher paid and unpaid

Amidst the current EV hype, a crucial point by CEA Anantha Nageswaran in #economicsurvey2025 -- investing in clean and effective public transportation is vastly more effective than simply getting more electric vehicles on the road.

Indian insurers look to hike premiums in cities worst affected by air pollution, after health impacts show up in “an extraordinary spike in claims” Artha Global reuters.com/world/india/in…

The panel discussion on Cities of Tomorrow organised jointly by the German Embassy and the Kubernein Initiative at the Quorum in Mumbai was insightful and thought provoking. It discussed problems of sustainable urban development from different perspectives.

Very interesting statistic. Even as we lay 100s > kms of roads, we must focus on road quality (potholes & obstructions) & management (lane discipline, mode segregation, orderly crossings etc) plus of course efficient mass public transit.

Today Vaidehi Tandel presents work in prog. paper w/ @TomBearpark, Ashwin Rode & Amine Ouazad PPT on impact of floods on urban housing markets in India. While this is researched in the US context there is scarce lit. on a developing country context Aradhya Sood is discussant

My colleague Karan Shah making a presentation to chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on ⁦Artha Global⁩’s work to design clean air zones in two cities in Andhra Pradesh, and what can be done to help vulnerable communities adapt to the growing incidence of heat stress

“𝐓𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝟐 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟑 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. 𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡-𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭

Can you imagine the power Indian cities could unlock by learning directly from each other? We recently saw it in action. After Maharashtra, the Centre for Emerging Cities at Artha Global collaborated with the Government of Andhra Pradesh (Municipal Department govt of Andhra pradesh) to host a