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Shortfall
Half-eaten dinners in Delhi, dashes to D.C., and many houses divided. This is the story of India’s failed 1966 devaluation.
Prakhar Misra is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University. He is a public policy researcher working on topics of state capacity, political economy, and bureaucratic reforms. More about his work can be found on his website.