This week, our Resident Senior Fellow Vivek Dehejia joined Kalpana Kochhar (IMF), Derek Scissors (American Enterprise Institute) and Milan Vaishnav (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) to discuss Modinomics at Two: Is it Working for India and its Citizens?
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Shout out to everyone in the DC area! Visiting Fellow in Political Economy, Vivek Dehejia will be a member of a distinguished panel on "Modinomics at Two", moderated by Sadanand Dhume with Milan Vaishnav Derek Scissors and Kalpana Kochhar at the American Enterprise Inst...
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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The Guardian recently featured research by Urban Age to explore governance structures of cities around the world. Excerpts below:
"Gerald Frug, professor of local government law at Harvard University, stated that 'cities ought to be able to make policies that improve the lives of ...
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...
At "The Next Billion" hosted by Quartz in New Delhi, IDFC Institute CEO Reuben Abraham spoke about the growth of cities and cities as a unit for political and economic experimentation.
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The Next Billion: New Delhi convenes global industry leaders to explore ...