A decent number of India’s billionaires founded a company.
How did India’s billionaires make their fortunes
17 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation Tags: billionaires, entrepreneurial alertness, India, superstars, top 1%
Disputed Indian borders
15 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy Tags: economics of borders, India
@paul1kirby why does @OECD claim that Indians trust their judicial system so much?
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of regulation, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights Tags: bribery and corruption, capitalism and freedom, doing business, economics of corruption, Index of Economic Freedom, India, rule of law
For a country riddled with corruption, Indians report the surprising amount of confidence in their courts despite the corruption in those courts as well.
Source: Index of Economic Freedom.
Does a country with a bullet train need ODA?
30 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India, ODA, overseas aid
World’s largest countries 1950-2060.
29 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: China, India
India’s child mortality is falling, nearing the British rate
25 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics, growth miracles, health economics Tags: child mortality, India, infant mortality, The Great Escape
How India will pass China to become world’s most populous country
30 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: China, India
how India will pass China to become world’s most populous country
05 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics, growth miracles, population economics Tags: ageing society, China, economics of fertility, India, Population demographics
Solar and wind in India will remain uncompetitive for the next 25 years
21 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: India, solar energy, wind power
The Great Fact in 2 charts
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China, India, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
Chinese and Indian real GDP PPP since 1980
31 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth miracles Tags: China, extreme poverty, India
Despite coming out of the blocks together, the Chinese economic miracle led to far larger increase in its respective real GDP PPP. Indian GDP only increased eightfold while Chinese GDP increased 18 fold since 1980 on a purchasing power parity basis.
Source: The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
The marriage squeeze in China and India
19 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, law and economics Tags: China, dating markets, family demographics, India, marriage and divorce, marriage markets, Population demographics, search and matching, sex-ratios
For every 100 single women in China in 2050-54 there will be up to 186 single men
economist.com/news/asia/2164… http://t.co/ntkQxYR3Un—
Patrick Foulis (@PatrickFoulis) April 20, 2015
The Great Escape by continent
14 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: Africa, child mortality, China, India, infant mortality, life expectancies, South America, The Great Escape
'The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts' – bit.ly/1M7W4Xr http://t.co/slB6oStjFq—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) July 14, 2015
The Great Escape actually accelerated after the GFC
10 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, labour economics, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, extreme poverty, global poverty, India, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
In 1993, >30% of India's urban population lived in extreme poverty. In 2011? Only 13%. buff.ly/1iutlQA http://t.co/238hsW2aeF—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) September 09, 2015
India and Pakistan became independent today
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, Public Choice Tags: age of empires, British empire, India, Pakistan
This day in 1947 | India and Pakistan independent after some 200 years of British rule: timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1… http://t.co/VfbpKayExM—
NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) August 15, 2015
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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