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In praise of slums. Or why millions of Indians choose to live in urban squalor

Vishy KurugantiAugust 23, 20122 mins

Took me longer to pick a ‘suitable’ slum picture than to write the post. (Pic: courtesy inhabitat.com) If you saw a provocative title like this on Twitter, you would click on it, right? I’m glad I did…

Top Takeaways from Banerjee and Duflo's Poor Economics

Vishy KurugantiNovember 18, 20114 mins

Pic: courtesy Pooreconomics.com If you’ve been following this blog for sometime, you know that I consider Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics as a bible of sorts — to understand poverty…

For the poor, what could possibly be more important than food?

Vishy KurugantiJuly 14, 20112 mins

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s book Poor Economics continues to live up to its promise. If you’ve missed it, here’s the teaser excerpts I captured last week. I’ve been tweeting insights from the…

Teaser on Banerjee-Duflo's Poor Economics

Vishy KurugantiJuly 07, 20113 mins

I cannot recall the last time I looked forward so much to reading a book on economics. But after reading the reviews of Poor Economics (by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo) and hearing from friends…

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