Quotes about "Gig Economy & Freelancing"

The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs? ”

If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control. ”

I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground. ”

Corruption is a huge problem and the poor and the powerless are often its most egregious victims. But it is not an accident that the most effective bureaucracies in the world rely much more on internal controls rather than on independent ombudsmen. ”

It is possible that Modi sees his life as evidence that hard physical work can triumph over every disadvantage, but if so, most of us Indians do not share his faith. ”

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work. ”

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life. ”

Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents. ”

In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong. ”

Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they're based on a detailed und­er­standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground. ”