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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:32 PM | November 18,2009
Escape from poverty isn’t some linear, one-way street--people fall back into poverty as well
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 01:15 AM | October 22,2009
There are many ingredients of success in Afghanistan, but improved local services is a key element
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:40 PM | October 07,2009
One exciting thread is a quest for a new way of thinking about markets and their intersection with social issues
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:52 PM | September 23,2009
Performance accountability is weak and enforced only once every five years via the ballot box
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 08:59 PM | September 09,2009
‘There are two kinds of poor people, those who have the capacity to improve their lives, and those who don’t’
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:27 PM | August 12,2009
We need to acknowledge conflicts as a positive attribute of a complex society, not trivialize them
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:08 PM | July 29,2009
We need to focus on policy prescriptions that make it easier for micro entrepreneurs to succeed
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 10:57 PM | July 15,2009
Every rupee of investment in the urban sector is productive--it boosts economic activity and multiplies jobs
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 12:30 AM | June 18,2009
The government should shed our ‘bypass’ mindset and be innovative about solving our infrastructure bottlenecks
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 12:30 AM | June 04,2009
The system is normally good but it is a bunch of unscrupulous individuals who give a bad name to it
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 10:27 PM | June 03,2009
The system is normally good but it is a bunch of unscrupulous individuals who give a bad name it
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:05 PM | May 20,2009
If the elections show anything, it is that politics and government matter, and affect almost everything about our lives
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:50 PM | May 06,2009
This year’s election shows political parties as opaque, eccentric institutions run largely by power brokers sitting in back rooms and greased by black money
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 08:45 PM | March 25,2009
Most candidates standing for elections wouldn’t know a word of what’s in their own party manifesto. But they are useful documents and can help to hold parties accountable if they get to run the government
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Mobius Strip | Ramesh Ramanathan 09:24 PM | February 25,2009
A brewing debate is beginning to surface, one that could be more divisive than the anger about the offensive depiction of India in the film . It has to do with Rahman’s conversion from Hinduism to Islam
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