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Ep. 88: Metrics of Empowerment

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Women's Reservation Is a Cop Out, Right?

The idea is that whenever we look at a solution from the suppliers end and not from the demand end, this is coming back to economics. Why are vouchers better than forcing schools to hire students from certain backgrounds? Or should we just create enough government schools around? And answer generally comes out is government school, which is a bad idea. You want to empower them to make the decision and give the same level of quality that the rest of the people have,. But again, the reservation doesn't work really.

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