Linkfest: March 12, 2018

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What I am reading today

Hydrogen trains one of our focus areas: Alstom CEO Henri Poupart-Lafarge (Economic Times)
Take a Private Road Out of India's Banking Bog (Gadfly: Andy Mukherjee)


Is war declining? (Marginal REVOLUTION)
The machines check in at Indian BPO companies (FactorDaily)
What on earth is the CPTPP? (Economist Explains)
Time poverty: The key to addressing gender disparity (India at LSE)
The Class: Entrepreneurship: Urban Opportunities and Solutions, with @ChicagoBooth's Abbie J. Smith, in Chicago Booth Magazine http://ow.ly/zIzc30iBHOK pic.twitter.com/MI1ya4E8fs (Chicago Booth Review)
Reading list for my 9th grade son (Jana Vembunarayanan)
Let 2018 be the year of stock selection; IT better placed than pharma: Kotak MF (Moneycontrol)
The implementation validity problem with RCTs (Gulzar Natarajan: Urbanomics)

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