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State capacity, urban policy, gender | Research @Mercatus | International dev & policy @UChicago | Prev: @IDFCinstitute | Aerial acrobat | Views personal
Mar 30, 2022 20 tweets 16 min read
As Women's History Month comes to an end, @shreyas_nl & I write in @scroll_in on the contributions of some brilliant female economists that have broken barriers and played a role in shaping India’s economic policy. 🧵 1/n scroll.in/article/102065… Who are the women? In the 80s, Dharma Kumar, Padma Desai, Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Utsa Patnaik, Rohini Nayyar, Parveen Talha, Devaki Jain, Krishna Bharadwaj, Kanta Ranadive & Sudha Shenoy forged their legacies via wide-ranging & path-breaking work in academia & public policy. 2/n