Preamble In my Macroeconomics Course in College, I was introduced to the Canons of Taxation are principles that guide the design of a fair and efficient tax system. Adam Smith, in his book *The Wealth of Nations*, introduced four fundamental canons of taxation: Equity: Taxes should be proportional to the taxpayer’s ability to pay. This… Continue reading Indexation and Canons of Taxation: Have We Learnt Anything from Angel Tax?
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Living in the Age of Disasters: From Multilateral to Bilateral Aid
Introduction In July 2013, I wrote an article titled The Business of Disasters in my column (w)Health Check ((W)Health Check | Kapil Khandelwal KK). The idea in the article was to encourage the corporate sector in India to innovate business models to manage disasters. (see the text of the article below). The world in the… Continue reading Living in the Age of Disasters: From Multilateral to Bilateral Aid
2023 India Healthcare and Lifesciences Investment Outlook
Since 2013 our algos have been accurately predicting the investment heatmap in the healthcare and life sciences in India which were predicting with 95% accuracy on the sectoral investment cycle in India till the end of 2019. Since the Covid Pandemic in 2020 we lowered levels of prediction accuracy like we started back in 2013.… Continue reading 2023 India Healthcare and Lifesciences Investment Outlook
2022: Healthcare and Life Sciences Investment Outlook
Since 2013 our algos have been accurately predicting the investment heatmap in the healthcare and life sciences in India which were predicting with 95% accuracy on the sectoral investment cycle in India till the end of 2019. Since the Covid Pandemic in 2020 we lowered levels of prediction accuracy like we started back in 2013.… Continue reading 2022: Healthcare and Life Sciences Investment Outlook
Why India is not selling its Healthcare Assets Under National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) 2021?
Preamble On 23 August 2021 the government announced a National Monetisation Pipeline of INR 6 tn, (~2.6% of GDP), aimed at monetising its brownfield infrastructure to fund greenfield ones. Most of these projects will be concentrated in the roads, railways, and power sectors and no monetisation of India’s healthcare assets. NMP provides the guide to… Continue reading Why India is not selling its Healthcare Assets Under National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) 2021?
Health Economics of Tomato!
Background Finally one of the unicorns in the foodtech space has turned profitable. Zomato is going public with its IPO. With public money it will raise, will also come the public scrutiny of what it does to the public and society at large. Here are some of the data from the Zomato prospectus that summarizes… Continue reading Health Economics of Tomato!
Excerpts of Kapil Khandelwal KK’s Keynote Address to Healthcare and Education Start Ups
Salutations Madam Secretary, members on the dais, dignitaries, my mentor friends and budding start up entrepreneurs. I invoke the blessing of his holiness to bestow the positive energies and blessing to one and all. Delivering Key Note Address Delivering keynote Address is always a matter of honour and pride on which one stands amongst ones… Continue reading Excerpts of Kapil Khandelwal KK’s Keynote Address to Healthcare and Education Start Ups
Healthcare and Life Sciences in 2021: Part 1- Sectoral Investments Heat Map
Since 2013 our algos have been accurately predicting the investment heatmap in the healthcare and life sciences in India which were predicting with 95% accuracy on the sectoral investment cycle in India till the end of 2019. Covid Pandemic has completely disrupted and reset the investment cycle in India and we missed out all our… Continue reading Healthcare and Life Sciences in 2021: Part 1- Sectoral Investments Heat Map