Public Policy Analyses
Rigorous empirical research addressing central economic and governance questions. Each study couples interactive econometric visualisations with audited raw datasets in our DuckDB cloud lake.
An empirical cross-era comparison: when China, the US, Japan, South Korea, and other major economies were at India's current real GDP size, what was their sectoral structure (agriculture, manufacturing, services)? Normalized in constant 2015 USD to strip inflation across eras.
Empirical Finding
China passed this real output milestone ~20 years ago (2004), South Korea ~10 years ago (2014), and the United States in the late 1960s.
An interactive counterfactual engine (1960–2047): pick any country's growth record, and India's GDP is extrapolated to 2047 at that pace — headline or sector-weighted — using World Bank Data360 data for 204 sovereign nations.
Empirical Finding
Vietnam's steadier 2000–2020 CAGR (6.43%) lands 2047 India near $14.5T — barely above holding India's own 5.83% pace (≈$12.9T).
An interactive, multi-dimensional empirical index evaluating 217 sovereign nations (1960–2024). Harmonizes aggregate scale, per capita productivity, price stability, and external solvency with real-time customizable weights and economic bloc filters.
Empirical Finding
India ranks #5 globally in economic scale and maintains resilient external balances (-0.9% to -1.2% CAB), but per-capita real output ($2,367) places it in the middle tier (#103) under standard welfare-weighted indices.
An empirical 35-year macroeconomic investigation (1990–2024) analyzing whether and how Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) drives or responds to economic growth in India, testing Claudia Goldin's Feminization U-Curve, female education expansion, and structural sector shifts.
Empirical Finding
Female secondary school gross enrollment surged from 34.9% in 1995 to 80.5% in 2022. Rather than outright labor withdrawal, young women (ages 15–24) postponed labor entry to build human capital.
An empirical cross-country econometric analysis investigating how sovereign tax collection relates to public investments in healthcare and education across 204 sovereign nations spanning 1970 to 2024.
Empirical Finding
High-income economies average 8.79% of GDP in health spending—1.91× their average education spending (4.73% of GDP), driven by aging demographics, capital-intensive medical tech, and expanded universal coverage.
A hybrid empirical macroeconomic analysis evaluating the growth elasticity of poverty across 150 sovereign nations alongside a 45-year longitudinal case study of India's poverty transformation (1977–2022).
Empirical Finding
Between 1977 and 2022, compounding annual per capita GDP growth of ~3.9% drove extreme poverty down from 59.7% to 5.25%, lifting over 450 million individuals out of subsistence deprivation.