Author
Vivan Sharan is a Partner at Koan Advisory Group, a boutique consulting and policy advocacy firm. An economist by training he is also a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation
In finding a balance between lives and livelihoods, governments should consider the merits of the continued sale of discretionary goods through online retail channels.
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Contactless cards enable seamless payments in physical retail settings and can prove instrumental for India’s demand recovery.
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De-coupling legality from sectoral hygiene can provide necessary certainty to entrepreneurs to invest and take risks. It also reduces the need for judicial intervention that can stymie new markets.
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Legal uncertainty is detrimental to market and consumer interests because it encourages new entrants to grow in a manner that they become ‘too big to regulate’.
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Future rulemaking should be collaborative, and allow different retail businesses to leverage their respective strengths.
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India must reform factor markets to attract large businesses that can help substitute China’s exports to the US and EU.
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In order to promote a start-up ecosystem the government must first fundamentally reorganise its procurement policies
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