The Broken Ladder

Krishna presents a ground-up view of emergent realities delving into the lives of ordinary individuals. Through decades-long investigations while living in villages and slum communities he reveals the eye-opening details of missed opportunities and the immense untapped talent that can be honed to enable tremendous consequences for growth and equity.From presenting possible solutions to the problems of neediness and inequity to considering ways of fixing inequalities of opportunity The Broken Ladder is a comprehensive account of development strategies in a fast-growing economy. About the Author Anirudh Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and professor of political science at Duke University USA. Before taking up academic life he spent fifteen years in the Indian Administrative Service. Krishna has made a home in a village in central India to which he returns for a few months every year.