Gift nifty future: The Gulati Institute of Finance and

The Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation ( GIFT ) is envisaged as a centre of excellence, specializing in research, training and consultancy, to provide fiscal and social policy inputs to the Government of Kerala in particular and the South Indian states in general. Affiliated to Cochin University of Science and technology, GIFT is also mandated to facilitate research leading to PhD, apart from being a highly acclaimed institute undertaking training programs for capacity building of different stakeholders, including Government officials. GIFT initiated the Research Capacity Building Program (RCBP) in 2020-21 to facilitate an interactive learning platform for the research capacity building of Scholars. The GIFT PhD coursework is designed to train the scholars in problem solving skills and equip them with a strong foundation in theory, quantitative methods and data analytics.