His independent ideas and a hatred for holy cows have branded Surjit S. Bhalla as the enfant terrible of Indian economics. In his new book Imagine There's No Country, Bhalla rubbishes poverty estimates made by the World Bank and the Indian government to come up with dramatic findings that could shake up global development policy. He explains his theories to Sandipan Deb.
What triggered the book?
So what was wrong?
Why the change in methodology?
If poverty has declined on this unprecedented scale in the globalisation era, why is it so?
But then why the protests against globalisation?
So what's the prescription?
