Inflect
Inflect is a policy and regulatory intelligence firm that helps governments and institutions make more informed decisions, and ensure those decisions deliver.
We work at the intersection of governance, regulation, and markets, bringing execution clarity into policy and regulatory systems. By diagnosing how institutions actually function on the ground, we design solutions that are credible, scalable, and built for real-world conditions.
InSights
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Why Anaemia Persists in India Despite Decades of Programmes
Anaemia in India continues to persist despite more than five decades of targeted public health interventions. Its persistence reflects not a lack of effort, but structural weaknesses in programme design,… Read more ⇢
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Higher Education at a Crossroads: Bridging the Gap Between Degrees and Jobs
India’s higher education system has expanded rapidly, yet labour market outcomes reveal a widening gap between degrees and employability. As automation and digitalisation reshape workforce demand, the challenge is no… Read more ⇢
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The AI Acceleration: Are We Even Ready for What’s Coming?
Generative AI is rapidly compressing the structure of creative industries. As production becomes easier, the real constraint in creative work shifts elsewhere: judgment. The question is no longer whether something… Read more ⇢
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Carbon Markets: From Climate Intent to Industrial Enforcement
Carbon Markets essentially put a price on emissions. Countries can develop Carbon Credit Trading Systems that allow carbon credits to be bought and sold by emitters, depending on actual and… Read more ⇢
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India’s Missing Talent System: Why Funding Isn’t Enough for Frontier Technology
India recently announced a ₹1 Lakh Crore R&D fund. While this could potentially be transformative, sustained progress in strategic and frontier technologies is not only a function of releasing funding… Read more ⇢
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ASHA Workers and Institutional Drift in India’s Community Health System
ASHA workers are central to India’s last-mile health delivery, now performing far beyond the limited, part-time mandate originally assigned to them. Yet they remain classified as voluntary workers, compensated largely… Read more ⇢
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Allocation or Agency: The Measurement Problem in India’s Gender Budget
Radha Malani, Sneha Mariam Thomas, and Zoyah Virani Gender Budgeting in India has been positioned as a tool for policymakers to measure the quantum of budgetary resources that have the… Read more ⇢
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(Digital) Platforms, Power, and the Future of Consumer Choice in India
The biggest influence on what Indian consumers buy is no longer the price tag- it is the order in which options appear on a screen. What appears as choice is… Read more ⇢
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Neutrality and Its Discontents: Caste, Equity, and the UGC
The debate over the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 has become a proxy fight over a deeper question: whether Indian higher education… Read more ⇢
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Explainer: Pricing Politics into America’s Debt
The Shifting Calculus of “Safe Assets” For three decades, U.S. Treasury securities were the closest thing the world had to a truly risk-free asset. Central banks and sovereign wealth funds… Read more ⇢
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