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Business News > Mint Authors > Anirudh Krishna

Anirudh Krishna

ARTICLES BY ANIRUDH KRISHNA

India needs policy intervention to uplift its urban poor

4 min read . 28 Oct 2020

Longstanding causes of vulnerability need to be addressed, so future pandemics will not result in the same human misery (AP)

The virus has exposed India’s Dickensian urbanization

4 min read . 21 Oct 2020

Medical staff conducting a door-to-door medical screening inside the Dharavi slums to fight against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Mumbai

Slum dwellers face the brunt of our pandemic situation

4 min read . 26 Aug 2020

Rural private schools perform no better than public schools in terms of outcomes. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The state of education in rural India

4 min read . 26 Jan 2018

A policy to improve healthcare in India needs to have at least three components: provision, insurance, and regulation. File Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint (Ramesh Pathania/Mint )

The roots of poverty: Ruinous healthcare costs

6 min read . 29 Oct 2012

Ramping up the rate of economic growth can help in many ways, but it will not reduce the frequency of poverty descents. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint (Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint)

The resurgence of poverty

7 min read . 11 Sept 2012