India’s Labor Arbitrage Strategy

It has been an interesting few days of being on the receiving end of tremendous hate mail due to my widely syndicated and (looks like) read and discussed Death of Indian Outsourcing article.

Beyond Bangalore

India’s development needs to spread well beyond Bangalore at this point, as is evident from data and arguments presented in a series of previous pieces such as Team of Twenty One, India’s Scale Concerns: Real Estate, India’s Real Estate Concerns, and India’s Real Estate Concerns Point to Second Tier Cities. Meanwhile, billions of dollars get

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Atanu Dey-Vinod Khosla Marshall Plan – Addendum

In Atanu Dey’s RISC model, he suggests a move to a micro-city model, as follows: :: India’s economic growth depends critically on the development of its 700-million strong rural population living in 600,000 villages. The challenge is to manage their transition from a village-centric agricultural-based economy to a city-centric non-agricultural economy urgently. The total rural

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Atanu Dey-Vinod Khosla Marshall Plan

By Atanu Dey, Guest Author India’s economic growth depends critically on the development of its 700-million strong rural population living in 600,000 villages. The challenge is to manage their transition from a village-centric agricultural-based economy to a city-centric non-agricultural economy urgently.