Friday, March 31, 2017

Causation or correlation, institutional deliveries are a step in the right direction.

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Karthik has provoked me sufficiently with his comment on my last post on NRHM and reference to this older post by Jeff Hammer and Jishnu...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Is NRHM the most successful healthcare program in the world?

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In the dismal world of pervasive program failures in development, India's National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) should stand out as a ...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

India's campaign finance reform journey

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The recently passed amendments to the Finance Bill 2017  by the Lower House of the Indian Parliament includes a provision to remove the ca...
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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Oil industry automation fact of the day

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From the Times on the new labor market normal in oil drilling in the US,  Roughly 163,000 oil jobs were lost nationally from the 2014 p...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The start-up story clarification

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This is in continuation to this earlier post. Let me clarify. No body can have a problem with start-ups. After all business creation has ...
Sunday, March 19, 2017

The need for regulation in e-commerce

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In an earlier post I had raised the issue of how internet firms benefit from regulatory arbitrage. The competitive advantage of the shari...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

China update

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China's alarming obsession with debt is arguably the biggest concern regarding the country's economic growth prospects. Morgan Sta...