Urbanomics

1. Bypasses, aimed at keeping traffic out of the city centres and thereby prevent traffic congestion, are falling out of favour with Brit...

From the FT on SoftBank 's raising of margin loans, SoftBank has favoured margin loans because even though banks can seize the under...

Another one of the entrenched narratives is that performance payment is the way to reform public systems. But, as I have blogged on severa...

China satisfies none of the classical requirements for sustained high economic growth rates - it has not clear formal legal protection of ...

All high-level decision-making (as an investor or a sportsperson or an administrator or a CEO) are essentially (well-informed) exercises i...

I have a co-authored paper here with Dr TV Somanathan on optimising urban space through vertical development. To quote the summary, Arg...

In the context of the government's professed objective to double farm incomes in five years, it is worth examining what could be poten...