sadhana manthapuri
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The Invisible Cost of National Decisions: What Happens to Local Development?
Sadhana Manthapuri, PhD · Oct 19, 2026 Global conflicts, trade uncertainty, technological change, and national policy…
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October Spotlight on Navigating Change for Better Tomorrow
Development planning often begins with a familiar sequence: identify the problem, design the policy, secure the…
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The Real Footprint of Policy Research: Google vs. Offline Databases vs. AI Chat
Every few weeks a headline tells us that a single ChatGPT prompt “drinks a bottle of…
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AI Is Here. But Is Everyone Ready?
A practical global guide to AI knowledge, skills, institutional capacity, governance and context for governments and…
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Is AI adding fuel to the existing North–South divide?
Over the past few days, I have been working on an AI startup idea and reading…
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Same Question. Three AI Models. Three Different Policy Stories.
A comparative experiment on youth unemployment, public policy, and the limits of AI assisted research By…
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Identifying the urban DNA: nature of genotypes and phenotypes
Cities, like living organisms, have lifetimes. Some rise with extraordinary momentum. Some sustain and evolve. Others…
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Urban Money Trails: Leakage vs. Retention in City Economies
How do we really know a city is doing well economically? Is it the number of…
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Urban Interdependencies: How Flows, Networks, and Nodes Sustain Urban Systems
When grocery store shelves went empty during COVID, cities didn’t fail.Their dependencies did. Yet when we…
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The Rules of the Block: Why Neighborhoods Are Systems, Not Addresses
Most of us experience the city not as a master plan or a policy document, but…
