We use data from Reserve Bank of India to study the impact of India's Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on finance-dependent activity. Loan volumes increase by 20-30% in districts along GQ and are stronger in industries more dependent upon external finance. Loan growth begins with...

In South Africa our recent past is a sobering reminder of ways in which slips and silences in history can empower and marginalise people. A post-apartheid vision of an integrated society has necessitated the writing of an inclusive history imparting a sense of coherence and integrity to the...

We present the first ever neighbourhood-scale portrait of caste-based residential segregation in Indian cities. Residential segregation studies in Indian cities have relied on ward-level data. We demonstrate in this paper that wards cannot approximate an urban neighborhood, and that they are...