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Vivan Sharan

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

Latest Articles By Vivan Sharan

Giving E-Retail its Due

Vivan Sharan

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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Enabling Trust In Contactless Payments Necessary To Unlock Demand

Vivan Sharan

Contactless cards enable seamless payments in physical retail settings and can prove instrumental for India’s demand recovery.

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Prescriptions for E-Pharmacy

Vivan Sharan

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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Prescriptions For E-Pharmacy

Vivan Sharan

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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The New Normal for Indian Retail

Vivan Sharan

Future rulemaking should be collaborative, and allow different retail businesses to leverage their respective strengths.

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India’s Untapped Export Opportunity

Vivan Sharan

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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No Country For Start-Ups (Yet)

Vivan Sharan

In order to promote a start-up ecosystem the government must first fundamentally reorganise its procurement policies

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