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1- Banning middlemen from oil trade could drive down price of crude by 40% : These middlemen add little value and lots of cost as they bid ...

Continuing from the 2nd part of the Development series in RM , I will move towards the 3rd part of the learning in the field of Rural Manag...

1- Accessing Institutional Finance: A Demand Side Story for Rural India Under the Reserve Bank of India’s “financial inclusion” campaign,...

Later Addition (Jan 2020): Diary of Rural Manager !  on the jobs, career prospects, and life of a rural management graduate. I was an asp...

Continuing from the 1st part of the Development series in RM , I will move towards the 2nd part of the learning in the field of Rural Manag...

Harvard professor Larry Lessig is one of our foremost authorities on copyright issues, with a vision for reconciling creative freedom with ...

John Stuart Mill is right here: there is no development, democratic or economic, without an educated citizenry. Hence with this statement, ...

मेरे ब्लॉग पर बहुत पोस्ट हैं लेकिन सब के सब जोड़ तोड़ एंड फिर घटजोड़ कर के लिखे गए हैं. बहुत कम में स्वंय का योगदान है और अधिकतर में केवल क...

1- Dark side of giving: The rise of philanthro-capitalism --- Large philanthropic resources are being utilised to further the interests of ...

1- State legitimacy and resistance : State derives its legitimacy from its institutions. Its these institutions that give State credibility...

The value of national ‘ownership’ in development of involving 2.8 million milk producers with AMUL separates itself from other success s...

1- Let a thousand heretics bloom : Liberal education is a sustained and controlled matter, where practicality is directly related to search...

Institute of Rural Management , Anand (IRMA) (founded 1979) is an autonomous institution located at Anand in Gujarat, India with the mandate...

Race vs. Class: The Future of Affirmative Action: Miller Center of Public Affairs.The debate has obvious parallels with the caste vs. class ...

Why Rural economy is always in a poor state ? Poverty exists in both rural and urban India. Slums are visible signs of poverty in the our ...

The present economic model is premised on the centrality and openness of markets. But the market forces themselves are a function of economi...

It becomes imperative, therefore, to strike a balance between the economic and social functions of land. A model of development that exclude...

Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef: US Is Becoming an "Underdeveloping Nation" Never in human history has there been such an ac...

Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean economist who has worked for many years with the problem of development in the Third World, articulating the i...

Adapted from the blog post of William Easterly This a 20 minute extemporaneous talk at UNICEF headquarters in New York on the topic of “...