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October 16, 2017

Existential Development: You’re basically looking for unicorns

Everybody loves a good comic strip. Lucky for you, we finally have one for the development sector. 'Existential Development' is the webcomic you've been waiting for.
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Existential Development

 

*Chandrima Das is an associate director at FSG in Mumbai, and she vehemently claims that her views expressed in the ‘Existential Development’ webcomic are not those of her organisation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Chandrima Das
Chandrima Das is an Associate Director at FSG in Mumbai. She has advised corporates and funders in a diverse range of issue areas such as water and sanitation, healthcare and mobile payments. She led research and analysis on mobile money in East Africa and microfinance in India in the 2014 Monitor Deloitte report, ‘Beyond the Pioneer’, and co-authored the 2016 FSG publication, ‘Hardware Pioneers’, which examines the impact potential of technology entrepreneurs. Chandrima started her career at Oliver Wyman’s financial services practice in New York. She studied business management at IIM Calcutta and computer science at NIT Durgapur.
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