Visiting Senior Fellow and Resident Senior Fellow, Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia, were quoted in The Economist article for their work on the widening gap between the different states of India.
"[In 1990] India’s three richest large states had incomes just ...
Ruchir Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, writes in The Times of India that the manner in which India's small cities are growing is causing problems for development. Excerpts below.
"India... has a severe problem developing second-tier cities...
In this Guardian Cities article, see incredible images of how the Pearl River Delta - the world's largest continuous urban region that encompasses Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen - has transformed from 1979 to now....
In this Project Syndicate article, Dani Rodrik argues that "Progressives should not buy into a false and counter-productive narrative that sets the interests of the global poor against the interests of rich countries’ lower and middle classes." Excerpts below:
"...The US presidential...
Narayan Ramachandran, Chairman of RBL Bank, joined us at the sidelines of the IDFC Institute Political Economy Dialogues to discuss the economic and political systems in India and China, conditional cash transfers, and social business as a tool of development.
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In the book "Economic Growth in Developing Countries," Mohan Lakhera writes that "Growth paths differ radically across countries, depending on the pace and the pattern of their individual structural transformations."
The excerpts below, from the chapter "Growth and Struc...
China plans an ambitious alternative to grey urban expanses. This City Lab article explains:
"... News reports of fatal floods come as regularly to city dwellers as the annual monsoon season... water has become the nemesis of China’s 680 million urbanites, whose concrete landscape wa...
In an interview with CNBC TV 18, Vikram Limaye, member of the IDFC Institute Executive Council, says:
"Increasingly we are in a networked world... India will certainly face the impact of what happens in China but the positive side is the fact that India has huge opportunity f...
This Economist article explains the nature of urban growth in China. It says:
"Migration from the countryside has helped expand the urban population by 500m—the biggest movement of humanity the planet has seen in such a short time... China has swapped its socialist dream for an Amer...
