This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from June 2010 to March 2014, is the India’s struggles with economic policy reform. The essays are organized into...

Global statistics suggest that people living in urban areas are more likely than those in rural areas to have access to “improved water sourcesâ€. Women do most of the work of water collection in low-income urban areas, as they do in rural areas. In this review of the literature on...