Urbanomics

1. Very informative article in The Economist on infrastructure financing. Two graphics are important. One, private investments in greenfiel...

Apart from specific instrumental contributors, this blog has rarely explored fundamental structural causes for the weak state in countries l...

The conventional wisdom is that there are hundreds of billions of dollars waiting to finance infrastructure in developing countries like Ind...

This post will summarise my understanding of choices available for youngsters interested in development and policy making.  There are perhap...

1. The pandemic has seen a sharp rise in profits of companies in India (and elsewhere) accompanied by wage cuts and layoffs. Mahesh Vyas as...

FT has a long read on the global textiles trade . Outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing has doubtless helped hundreds of millions of...

1. A new NBER paper highlights another example of capitalism with Chinese characteristics, in the faster growth of private firms with conne...