Saksham Khosla
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Sharing cool research on India, climate, fintech, and politics.
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Developed in developed markets, emerging in emerging markets.
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25-11-2012 19:10:14
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.Suyash Rai on thinking through the Make in India initiative: "To misquote Robert Solow, we can see the success of Make in India everywhere except in the national accounts statistics, employment figures, foreign investment figures, and trade flows." carnegieindia.org/2023/10/04/is-…
Really pleased to share that "Making Sense, Making Choices: How Civilians Choose Survival Strategies During Violence" is accepted at American Political Science Review . You can see the accepted version here! I'll post more about the paper once it's up on FirstView. aidanmilliff.com/media/Milliff_…
The wait for NYE might be a good time to catch up on India's job story in the past 5 years. In a 4-part series, we used population projections to track changes in a clearer way than the PLFS reports do. The 1st part estimated India's labour force growth: hindustantimes.com/india-news/num…
Does the Indian Ocean matter and how so in the 21st Century? I am asked this question so often that I decided to write a book about it. Delighted to share the cover to be published this summer with Yale University Press
📢📢📢Info session with Project EduAccess on scholarships for public policy graduate degrees! Q&A with Smriti Saini Smriti Saini, Equity In Policy Education fellow on U.S. financial aid & Sameer Rashid Sameer Rashid Bhat on U.K. Rhodes Trust & Clarendon Scholars' Association All are welcome!
From Axis Bank: Maharashtra is the 10th state to launch an income-transfer scheme for women. 16% of India’s adult female population will now receive such funds. Total spend is 0.8% of these states’ combined GSDP, and 0.6% of India’s GDP. researchreports.axiscapital.co.in/ResearchDownlo…
Why do Indians spend so much to celebrate a wedding ? Francis Bloch, Sonalde Desai and I showed (with a sample of 800 poor households from Karnataka) that the average family spends 6 times their annual income on a wedding, and it is mainly driven by a desire to signal social
Impressive new study exploring the many different "flavors" of cash transfers. Paper by Dean Karlan Christopher Udry Finley Ong Julius Rüschenpöhler 🇺🇦 Crosta of Northwestern, USAID, CEPR, etc NBER nber.org/papers/w32779
