Nikhil Menon
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Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India
- By: Nikhil Menon
- Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
India’s Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world’s most ambitious experiments. After nearly two centuries of colonial rule, planning the economy was meant to be independent India’s route from poverty to prosperity. Planning Democracy... Read more
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