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Business News > Mint Authors > Surjit S. Bhalla

Surjit S. Bhalla

Mint columnist

Surjit S. Bhalla is former executive director at the International Monetary Fund, former part-time member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and author of the book ‘How We Vote.’

ARTICLES BY SURJIT S. BHALLA

Three states stand out as performers for the I.N.D.I.A alliance: Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Maharashtra.

Failure has many mothers: The Indian voter gets it right again

4 min read . 04 Jun 2024

It turns out that the International Labour Organization (ILO), which conducts labour-force surveys that get the same respect and authority as the World Bank’s surveys and studies on poverty around the world, has now deemed the 2017-18 and 2018-19 PLFS results to be, worthless.

Good quality or bad, data always has plenty to reveal: Let data speak

4 min read . 19 Apr 2024

Dandekar-Rath defined the poor in terms of an average consumption of 2,250 calories per capita per day, equivalent to ₹15 for rural areas and ₹22.50 for urban areas, both in 1960-61 prices.

We must not let poverty of thought stop India from tracking deprivation

4 min read . 27 Mar 2024

For the first time in Indian history, inequality has declined in both rural and urban areas.

India’s development landscape has undergone a structural shift

4 min read . 27 Feb 2024

The real investment rate for 2023-24—a high 35.8 %, is one of the highest levels achieved for a six-month period.

Facts about India’s GDP growth challenge the narrative of critics

5 min read . 05 Dec 2023

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is now a truth universally acknowledged that Indian GDP growth is the fastest among G20 economies and expected to be so for this decade.

Narratives of India’s labour market vary but the reality doesn’t

5 min read . 23 Nov 2023

The argument over Indian poverty will soon cease to be, as three organisations (NSSO, NCAER and CMIE) have ongoing surveys on consumption, The dictum “let us publish any poverty estimate” will no longer be advisable.

Poverty in India is yet again being overstated

10 min read . 05 Jun 2023

Definitions are important for poverty measurement

4 min read . 03 May 2022

The findings of the NSO’s Consumer Expenditure Survey of 2017-18 are in such sharp contrast to trends revealed by other data sources that their reliability is suspect. (Photo:: iStock)

Opinion | Is the NSO’s consumption data for 2017-18 beyond salvation?

4 min read . 28 Nov 2019

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

Surjit S. Bhalla | Dismantling the welfare state

8 min read . 11 Jun 2014