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ITC's e-Choupal model to increase farmer revenue and its own bottom-line

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 20, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Last month, I met with Sivakumar Surampudi, a 22 year ITC veteran, architect of e-Choupal, and head of their Agro Business Division (ABD) at his office in Hyderabad. This post is based…

The curious history of conditional cash transfers

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 15, 20114 mins

Brazilian Maria shows off her “Bolsa Familia” social plan card (Pic: courtesy guardian.co.uk) [Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of six excerpts from chapter 4 (education policy) of Abhijit…

The Invisible City Makers in Bangalore

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 14, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: When I was researching for this post on CSTEP, I came across an exhaustive 98-page report (authored in 2010) on the homeless in Bangalore. The research was done in collaboration with…

Attracting diaspora to address India's higher education faculty gap

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 13, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, academic collaborators from Rutgers University, Penn State University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences published an insightful study that quantified the severe…

Will They Return? Insights on Attracting Higher Education Diaspora Faculty

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 12, 20112 mins

Pratham's Contributions to Indian Education Policy Debate

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth in a series of six excerpts from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics, specifically from chapter 4 (on education policy) – Top of the Class. The…

Corruption cases against Indian government officials – current state

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 09, 20112 mins

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a publishing hiatus during the Anna Hazare movement. Along with hundreds of millions of other Indians, I was following the ebb and flow of the movement…

Empowering Bihar's rural health workers with mobile phones and money transfer

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 08, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Since Jan 2011, Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) has been leading the implementation of a mobile money transfer pilot for ASHAs in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district. At the pilot’s…

Middle ground between the supply-wallahs and demand-wallahs

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 07, 20112 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post is the third in a series of six excerpts from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics, specifically from chapter 4 (on education policy) – Top of the Class. Part…

The Supply Demand Wars in Education Policy – Part 2

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 06, 20112 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a series of six excerpts from Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics, specifically from chapter 4 (on education policy) – Top of the Class. Part…

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