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Attracting diaspora to address India's higher education faculty gap

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 13, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, academic collaborators from Rutgers University, Penn State University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences published an insightful study that quantified the severe…

Will They Return? Insights on Attracting Higher Education Diaspora Faculty

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 12, 20112 mins

Pratham's Contributions to Indian Education Policy Debate

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 10, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post is the fourth 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. The…

Corruption cases against Indian government officials – current state

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 09, 20112 mins

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed a publishing hiatus during the Anna Hazare movement. Along with hundreds of millions of other Indians, I was following the ebb and flow of the movement…

Empowering Bihar's rural health workers with mobile phones and money transfer

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 08, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: Since Jan 2011, Norway India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) has been leading the implementation of a mobile money transfer pilot for ASHAs in Bihar’s Sheikhpura district. At the pilot’s…

Middle ground between the supply-wallahs and demand-wallahs

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 07, 20112 mins

[Editor’s Note: This post is the third 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 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…

FarmsNFarmers – a full-service approach to maximizing farmers profits

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 05, 20113 mins

Farms n Farmers co-founders: Shashank Kumar (left) and Manish Kumar (right) [Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, I had an engaging conversation with Shashank Kumar, co-founder of Farms N Farmers, an end…

Supply-Demand Wars in Education Policy – Part 1

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 02, 20113 mins

[Editor’s Note: The best non-fiction book I ever borrowed used to be Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. That distinction is in real danger of being usurped by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s…

No-frills Savings: MFIs have a case to make

Vishy KurugantiAugust 26, 20114 mins

[Editor’s Note: It’s a pleasure to bring you TechSangam’s second guest writer – Srijan Kaushik. After graduating from DAIICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) in…

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