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Public policy challenges - case study of Bangladesh power sector
FT has an excellent long read in the context of Bangladesh that highlights several policy challenges with the implementation of industrial policy and…
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Thoughts on Affordable Housing - V
I have blogged on several occasions that the only solution to making housing affordable is to expand supply. This supply expansion has to combine both…
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Real estate related public revenues in China
Land has been an important factor in China's spectacular economic growth. Its ownership by the government has been critical in helping local governments…
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Ten things on development which conflicts with conventional wisdom
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Problems with international development - I
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The challenges of scaling and firm capability
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One Nation, One Tax, One Database
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The capital cost problem with attracting foreign capital into climate change mitigation projects
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The politics of the practical middle - the Polder model?
We live in times characterised by extreme polarisation. Reflecting this, the overlap between the right and left-wing politics has diminished to become…
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Wars and state competition in Europe led to emergence of strong states
David Schonholzer has an excellent article in the latest edition of Works in Progress where he attributes Europe's early modern advancement to wars…
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The capital cost problem with attracting foreign capital into climate change mitigation projects
Arguably the biggest problem in attracting foreign capital to finance infrastructure and climate change mitigation projects in developing countries is…
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The AV AI choice - an illustration of why AI should be regulated
A few weeks back I had blogged here and here based on Acemoglu and Johnson's new book Power and Progress that there was nothing inevitable about…
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25 economic orthodoxies that should be discarded
Angus Deaton has set the cat amongst the pigeons by writing a book lamenting the state of economics in America. He has written that economists have been…
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Profit shifting - Global tax evasion
A very informative report on profit shifting by multinational corporations and rich individuals has been published by EU Tax Observatory. As financial…
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Some thoughts on India's private sector
A constant theme of many posts in this blog is the lack of dynamism, the absence of scale manufacturing, and the deficit of genuine entrepreneurship in…
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