My advice for JMCs is to pick jobs that maximise the prob. that 10 years on you've answered questions you find meaningful. Helps avoid academia's most soul destroying outcome-writing papers only for tenure. Low teaching & mentors/coauthors are more useful than dept rank or money
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This is not an NDA vs UPA post. But as India approaches elections, there’s a lot of chatter about how the current govt is doing well because they are spending more on infrastructure. Capex is up. Is this the best way of looking at performance? (1/6)
We are often awestruck by Chinese infrastructure-wide roads, trains, fancy skyscrapers. But this is both an input to economic growth *and* an outcome. And research shows infra alone does not lead to economic transformation. (2/6)
There’s a vast gap b/w India&China on education. Unable to hide differences in infra, India opts out of comparative school tests. Except in 2011 when govt schools from 2 best performing states took the PISA test. They finished near bottom. Chinese students now rank first (3/6)