Archive for February, 2007
India’s Capital Markets: Deutsche Bank releases paper
Another bank, another paper.
Deutsche Bank Research has released a 16 page report on India’s capital markets. It has a lot of numbers from a lot of places, and may not interest everyone. But it presents some interesting observations on India’s growth and development.
Credit growth has surged at 35% year on year in 2004-05, but financial [...]
Evaluating Microfinance: CGD, IPA and other experiments
The CGD has a bunch of reports evaluating the impact of microfinance. The initiative is led by David Roodman, who authored the Microfinance as Business report (previously covered here). The article explains how their assessments are different:
Understanding how microfinance affects clients is not straightforward because there are several possible explanations for why, say, a borrower [...]
Private Education for the Poor Part 2: Evaluating Vouchers
In response to my last post, Private Education for the Poor, Alex pointed me to an article in The Hindu (The Farce of School Choice) specific to the Indian case that is worth discussing. The author Jayati Ghosh shows candidly the limitations of vouchers.
Private Education for the Poor
Last week, Christine Bowers noted on the FP Passport blog that “the world’s slums are full of private school kids.” On a similar note, the FT reported in January on how India’s poor are spurning state schools, indicating the complete inability of the state to provide a “traditionally core public service.”
Christine brings to the fore [...]
Advance Market Commitment for Vaccines takes off: A Partial Solution
Crossposted from the THDBlog.
CGDev reported on Monday (also covered in BW) that some G7 nations, together with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed to provide an advance market commitment of $1.5 billion for purchase of vaccines against pneumococcal disease. Why is this commitment important?
By promising in advance to pay for life-saving vaccines once they are [...]
Returning to India: of Struggle and Hope
A friend pointed me to Piya’s blog. Piya has a penchant for clicking photos and has just returned to live in Delhi after several years. Only two months old, the blog is already an excellent illustration of the riot that India is for one’s senses, and the eccentricities it presents. Reading it, I finally had [...]
Lehman Brothers on Climate Change: Who Looses
Lehman Brothers this month published a report on climate change and its impact on business. Reported in the IHT, I came across it at work, but could not find it publicly.
Despite its length (143 pages), the report is an excellent summary of what has happened and what options lie ahead, and makes a quick browse [...]
New Drug Developments point to New Industry Model
Three interesting pieces of news in the pharmaceutical industry, reported yesterday on IHT and the Wall Street Journal Europe, point to an emerging trend in drug development and R&D.
