Does anyone have first-hand experience of the Right To Information (RTI) Act, ie in using the Act for personal/ professional purposes? I’m trying to figure out how widespread and user-friendly the Act is in practice. My interest has been piqued by Arvind Kejriwal’s Magsaysay Award, and the press that Parivartan has been getting. Sounds very [...]
The media “controversy” over offshore outsourcing subsides Angry rants and dismal laments about offshore outsourcing are joining over-excited Internet revolution articles from 1999 in the dust-bin. As we’d predicted. Greg Mankiw , who’s experienced the outsourcing sturm und drang first-hand, points us to this David Leonhardt article in the New York Times: A few years [...]
Back soon folks. Till then, links to some great reading – Larry Summers’ speech at the Reserve Bank of India on 24 March, 2006 – Edward Leamer’s review of Thomas Friedman’s The World Is Flat – Our friend, Joydeep Mukherji’s paper for the Center for the Advanced Study of India at U. Penn, titled Economic [...]
This is a heads up for those readers who have access to Charlie Rose’s excellent TV show on PBS. Mr Rose is spending the week in India and will be conducting interviews with a wide range of people, including M.K. Narayanan, Azim Premji, Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata, Kiran Mazumdar, Anil Agarwal, Shabana Azmi and a [...]
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