India's inheritance of loss

Charles Bodhi steps onto a creaky bridge in India’s water sector.


"Development is indeed a momentous engagement with freedom’s possibilities," a doyen of economics once thundered. It is a bitter irony that Amartya Sen, one of India's most celebrated economists and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, would, in his famous treatise, Development as Freedom, expound on such virtues of development as empowerment of lives, enrichment of ...

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