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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty – BOOK REVIEW
Background All economies face different types of socio-economic challenges. The problems include inefficient education and healthcare, poor sanitation, and so on. Most prominent and despicable among all is poverty because it can be attributed as a reason for all other evils. According to a report released by the World Bank in 2010, there is a … Continue reading Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty – BOOK REVIEW
Vidyasagar’s Bengal Losing the Battle in Its Schools
West Bengal which has given India its best academics, thinkers, poets and scientist, is faltering in the school classrooms. The recent ASER 2016 report shows that the cohort of children in rural schools in West Bengal are far below their peers from other States in the country. The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is … Continue reading Vidyasagar’s Bengal Losing the Battle in Its Schools
Getting Primary Schools in India to Deliver
Orhan Pramanuk, the Turkish Nobel laureate in literature while discussing creative labor in the World Development Report 2015 relates to an anecdote on Gauss, the celebrated German mathematical genius. “There is a charming anecdote about the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. According to the version our mathematics teacher in Istanbul told us, a class of … Continue reading Getting Primary Schools in India to Deliver