Creating a compelling vision which has the power to inspire is the first step to economic growth and therefore towards development. We have to imagine the future state first before we can make it a reality. Imagine that instead of 600,000 tiny villages, the same 700 million people were living and working in cities. Imagine […]
“Can India Afford its Villages?” is the title of an opinion piece in today’s livemint.com (a joint HT and WSJ newspaper). The subtext says, “The answer to the problems of our rural economy paradoxically lies in urban development.” If you are familiar with my obsessions, you would suspect that I had something to do with […]
Microfinance is touted as the big thing that can alleviate rural poverty. I personally believe, like a lot of others, that it is surely one of the means for the same. It is one of those things which gives us hope. Businessworld has been covering microfinance for a while now and I […]