Adam Davidson, David Kestenbaum and their colleagues at NPR's Planet Money has been spending a lot of time this year looking into what makes poor countries poor. On Friday's Planet Money podcast, Davidson and Kestenbaum took on the case of India. India is a particularly curious case. While the economy of the world's largest democracy is growing at a rate of 8% (very impressive during this period of global recession and slow recovery), poverty seems inescapable for hundreds of millions there.
Take a listen.
Posted
06-07-2010 5:21 AM
by
Graham Griffith
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