India’s transformation into a developed economy requires an economic architecture that unlocks productivity, accelerates investment, expands entrepreneurship, and generates high-quality employment across sectors and regions. The next wave of reforms must translate macroeconomic stability and digital progress into deeper structural change in land, labour, capital, technology, and regulatory efficiency. The Economic Reforms program examines how India can pursue growth that is not only rapid, but innovation-led, opportunity-creating, and resilient, enabling the leap from lower-middle-income to advanced-economy status within a generation.
The Economic Reforms program integrates macroeconomics, regulatory analysis, institutional design, and geoeconomics to produce implementation-ready policy pathways. Our research evaluates priorities such as predictable and simplified taxation, manufacturing and export competitiveness, logistics and trade facilitation, capital-market deepening, urban economic transformation, MSME upgrading, and digital public infrastructure as a platform for innovation-led growth. We also assess how competitive federalism, labour-market flexibility, and technology diffusion can enhance productivity at scale. We seek to develop detailed policy frameworks to support a high-growth, investment-magnetic, innovation-driven, and job-rich economy aligned with the vision of a Viksit and Atmanirbhar Bharat