Linkfest: March 14, 2018

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What I am reading today

Investor Summits: Supply Side Item Songs (IDFC)
These Two China Banks Lent More To Global Energy Projects Than The World Bank (BRIC Breaker)


At this rate, it's going to take nearly 400 years to transform the energy system (MIT Technology Review)
Indian economic growth is being surpassed by wealth accumulation. Again.  (India at LSE)
Fear of China Scuttles Broadcom Deal That Didn't Involve China (Wired: Business)
Trillion-Dollar Deficits Far as the Eye Can See (Daily Reckoning)
Investor-State Disputes in the EU – Some Statistical Observations (Oxford Business Law Blog blog)
The Proliferation of Happiness (Smithsonian History)
Can Millets Solve India's Nutrition Security Problems? (ISB Insight)
How Democracies Die (Barel Karsan)

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