its been awhile since Ive posted. here are some links ive come across recently you may find interesting.
call me a skeptic. Launced today, coming soon to India - a $10 laptop. So says Wired. (Though FT.com had it at $20). Called the "Sakshat", it seems significantly lower then the now well known $100 Laptop per child.
A Stimulus Package for the World. NYT Op-Ed from Bob Zoellick
This one isn't India specific, but a nice article in NY Review of Books on the financial 'crisis'. (Hey there are enough microfinance posts on here, we can deal with the occasional interesting link)
Arvind Panagariya in FP on "India's Secret Financial Weapon"
Amartya Sen (The New Republic) on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In my free time, I dont seem to get around to much non-fiction these days. But a good book Im wrapping up soon is Helen Epstein's "The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa" (amazon link). Heres a link to the review from Bill Easterly in NY Review of Books (from CGD website), and a post on the book from the Centre for Global Development.
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