Noah Smith says that economic growth and emissions begin to diverge after a certain point. Clearly, as the chart below shows, India is not there yet. Wonder at what level […]
Caste Politics & Economic Growth: Divergent Cases of Bihar and Odisha
Shamika Ravi has a piece in The Economic Times today titled, “How caste politics played a spoilsport for Bihar’s growth while Odisha is surging forward”. A comparative analysis of Bihar […]
Size of The Pie Is Not Fixed
“Most economic fallacies derive … from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.” – Milton Friedman […]
Bihar’s District-wise Per Capita Gross District Domestic Product
Most districts of Bihar, except for a few along the river Ganga and the capital city Patna, has income levels not too far apart from each other. These numbers still […]
A Terabyte Hard Drive in 1956 Would be the Size of a 40-story Building
Tim Urban over at Twitter has this interesting graphic comparing the size of a 5 megabyte hard drive in 1956 vs. 1 terabyte today. There are people in the picture […]
India’s Cotton Productivity – Stagnant, and way behind Global Peers
The following data from Ministry of Agriculture caught my eye today. It shows that after seeing a massive jump in the beginning of this century, the cotton productivity over the […]