Its the silver jubilee week of this series!
How to read an Annual Report, The contrast of Satyarthi and Malala’s Nobel, PPP growth of global economies and much more in this week's edition.
Indians think success is
almost equally dependent on hard work and being lucky
What to read in IMF’s latest take on Indian economy
And a look at how, according to IMF,
global economies have grown in PPP terms
Bangladesh is the ideal model India should be looking up to when it comes to fighting open defecation:
in terms of the investments required, but also in creating
social pressure and behavioural change
Surveilling government employees: does that really bring in more accountability or just another system bureaucrats will game
Ebola may not be the fastest spreading disease, but
it is among the deadliest
A bit of Corp Finance 101:
How to read an annual report
Why do companies break-up: to create more value, or to manage better
Don’t ignore theory just because the reality don’t seem to follow it. Understand why theory isn’t working
Four steps of organisational growth, dominance or irrelevance
Nobel prizes
Why are
Nobel prizes considered biggest awards on the planet
And why are they
among the most controversial
Indian writers
can’t seem to get a sniff of Literature Nobel
Kailash Satyarthi’s Peace Nobel:
the significance of his work
Is the root removing child labour in removing poverty?
The contrast of Satyarthi and Malala’s Nobel: For one it is recognition of years of effort,
for the other it could be fraught with more risks
All the Nobel prizes interactive
Off topic
A comedy club
that charges you by how much you laugh
Why do erasers suck at erasing
Finally
Dharavi: The ultimate capitalist, libertarian economy?
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Shreyas is a Delhi-based Consultant working with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He blogs at
shreyasp.wordpress.com. He is an alumnus of IIM Indore.