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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…

The mud chulhas of India

Vishy KurugantiAugust 17, 20111 mins

I’m still halfway through my post on Greenway Grameen Infrastructure (published here). The Greenway Grameen Infra crew has done a fair amount of market research and have amassed a veritable photo…

Working for informed and participatory democracy – the PRS story

Vishy KurugantiAugust 09, 20116 mins

[Editor’s Note: It’s a pleasure to bring TechSangam’s first guest post, on PRS Legislative Research (PRS), from Yogesh Upadhyaya. Yogesh is co-founder of banking and financial services software…

Why I Like These Social Enterprises – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiJuly 18, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy inthroughit.wordpress.com It recently struck me that I should start adding a “What I like about <enterprise x>” section to each post. The section would include social metrics the…

Some GDP and health trends from Gapminder

Vishy KurugantiJune 22, 20111 mins

A friend alerted me to Gapminder.org a while ago and today I finally sampled some of their amazing datasets via their nifty Trendalyzer. If you haven’t heard of Gapminder, their mission statement…

India's Ashoka Fellows

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20113 mins

Pic: courtesy india.ashoka.org [Editor’s Note: Last month, I sat down with Solomon Prakash for the first of what promises to be many more interesting conversations. Solomon is a serial social…

Thoughts on philanthropy disruption

Vishy KurugantiMay 13, 20112 mins

World’s Top 2 Philanthropists posing a rare casual look (Pic: courtesy topnews.net.nz) Two panel discussions at Sankalp Forum 2011, both on impact investing, provided food for thought. One of them…

Katuri's Question

Vishy KurugantiApril 07, 20112 mins

It’s almost a year since we purchased the Reva as our second car. The borderline-giddy post Hum do humare do…bina exhaust ke on my personal blog records that event. Recently I crossed the 3000km mark…

Evolution of the Human Race

Vishy KurugantiMarch 11, 20112 mins

If you were to drop into a bookstore or a library looking for an Arthur C. Clarke book, you’d quickly be directed to the Science Fiction area. There is however one of his works that’s worthy of also…

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