Blog >> Social inequalities
On a recent trip to Bihar, Dean, Avinash and I had the opportunity to visit a PDS dealer in Muzaffarpur district and ask him about the new cupon system for the Public Distribution System (PDS) in Bihar. The PDS is...Read More..
Smoke gets in whose eyes?
- Topics: Environment, Pollution, Social inequalities
For the past month and a half or so, Diane and I have been in Delhi. We've made friends with the great people at the Delhi School of Economics and with the folks at NCAER who bring you my...Read More..
Working to eat, eating to work
- Topics: Employment, Social inequalities
For this post, I’d like to share a paper that I just read by Anil Deolalikar, published in 1988 in the Review of Economics and Statistics entitled “Nutrition and Labor Productivity in Agriculture: Estimates for Rural South India.” Deolalikar’s article...Read More..
This post is about a humbling sight I saw on the street in Guadalajara a few weeks ago: At a busy intersection there was a young man, about 20 or 25 years old who washes the windows of the cars...Read More..