Building knowledge and deploying research to analyse and diagnose issues in the field of public procurement.
Our work in this field includes developing a sector-agnostic framework to measure the impact of procurement inefficiencies on the financial health of firms; to identify the landscape of institutions that play a role in the planning-to-payment stages of government procurement; understand contract structures in public procurement across different fields; identify state capacity issues in commercial contracting; taking deep dives into some sectors where government procurement is undertaken at a large scale and studying the efficacy of dispute resolution mechanisms in government contracts.
Government vaccine contracting
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The footprint of union government procurement in India
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xKDR working paper 10, November 2021 |
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How elements of the Indian state purchase drugs
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xKDR working paper 5, August 2021 |
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How competitive is bidding in infrastructure public procurement? A study of road and water projects in five Indian states Charmi Mehta and Diya Uday |
The Leap Blog, 29th March 2022 |
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Lessons from the COVID-19 vaccine procurement of 2021 Charmi Mehta and Susan Thomas |
The Leap Blog, 15th November 2021 |
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Is monetising public assets a good idea? Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Ajay Shah (An associated article in The Hindu.) |
The Hindu Parley podcast with Prashant Perumal 3rd September 2021 |
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Lessons from the Delhi Metro Pavithra Manivannan |
Business Standard, 28th July 2021 |
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Litigation in public contracts: some estimates from court data Devendra Damle, Karan Gulati, Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri Downstream of this: |
The LEAP Blog, 26th May 2021 |
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How large is the payment delays problem in Indian public procurement? Pavithra Manivannan and Bhargavi Zaveri |
The LEAP Blog, 22nd March 2021 |
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Monetisation lessons from NHAI Charmi Mehta and Bhargavi Zaveri |
Business Standard, 10th March 2021 |
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The bottleneck of government contracting Ajay Shah |
Business Standard, 25th January 2021 |
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What ails public procurement: an analysis of tender modifications in the pre-award process Shubho Roy and Anjali Sharma |
The LEAP Blog, 26th November 2020 |
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The payment woes of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Anjali Sharma and Bhargavi Zaveri | Business standard, 23rd November 2020 |
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The problems of public procurement and payment delays: A review of the recent literature Sourish Das and Rabia Khatun |
The LEAP Blog, 23rd November 2020 |
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Does India need a public procurement law? Shubho Roy and Diya Uday |
The LEAP Blog, 19th August 2020 |
| Call for Papers Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) and XKDR Forum Joint Field Workshop on Firm Finance | with CMI, 30th July 2022 |
| Field Workshop on Firm Finance | with CMI, 17th - 18th September 2021 |
| Roundtable on Economic issues in government procurement | with CMI, 22nd January 2021 |
| Inaugural session on ``Government contracting: a key barrier for state capacity'' | Emerging Markets conference 2020, 14th December 2020 |
| Field workshop on Firm finance and behaviour | with CMI, 9th-11th September 2020 |