Category Archives: Policy
Policy Analysis on Affordable Housing solutions for Greater Boston Area
As part of Harvard’s Public Leadership Certificate course, I got a chance to analyze the Greater Boston’s Housing market and I really enjoyed the framework and mechanisms to analyze. So sharing it out here. A breif summary of the course … Continue reading
Global Wealth Tax
For the past few years, whenever I get a chance to pitch one proposal that can have the most impact, I always say establish a Global Wealth Tax and use it to fund Universal Basic Income. Why Wealth tax? Often … Continue reading
Creating Rural Development Bonds for Investment in Rural Micro-SMEs in India
I got a chance to work on rural development using firms as part of my original research statement and 14.760: Firms, Markets, Trade and Growth course during my Masters. Sharing it out in the public domain to improve discussion on … Continue reading
Housing: Land Use, Entitlement and Monopoly
Over past few years I have been studying public policy in the context of developed countries, and US in pirticular. This is first post in the series on US policy from an outsider view. As a developed nation, there are … Continue reading
Confidence to be wrong.
Its been a while since I posted last, around 3 yrs. I can partially blame it on the Dunning Kruger effect on confidence vs wisdom. Over time, I learnt more economics, and policy related topics, I kept feeling not the … Continue reading
Rapid Urbanization of India Existing Solutions and research
July 21, 2018 1. Overview 1.1. Why Rapid Urbanization All major developed countries have a Urban-Rural population ratio of 80:20, Whereas India is still at 30:70. As the living standards of people improve over time, we will eventually be reaching … Continue reading
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