The Research and Analysis undertaken by CBGA falls into four broad categories:

Major Research Studies

CBGA undertakes Major Research Studies on critical policy and governance issues.

Manuals and Primers

In its attempt to demystify Government’s Budget and various issues of public policy, CBGA has initiated a series of primers and manuals.

Newsletter

The regular publication of CBGA is a tri-annual newsletter, called the ‘Budget Track’. Budget Track analyses the budget and policy priorities of the government in short articles. The main aim is to simplify the economic and the policy issues. Initially, it was published only in English, but later on, with growing demands of non-English speakers, CBGA began translating Budget Track in Hindi. The focus has been on the presentation of technical issues and data in an understandable manner.

Other Research Outputs and Support

CBGA works with a diverge range of actors. It attempts to support them by way of offering research inputs. Thus, in addition to its in-house publications, its produced various research outputs with other actors as well.

In addition, CBGA also prepares Questions for Parliamentarians so as to seek relevant information and ensure the accountability of the Union Government on issues of utmost importance for the common people of this country.