Wealth of Nations Podcast

Wealth of Nations Podcast


No Migrants In My Backyard: How Bad Urban Planning Created a Humanitarian Disaster in India

September 27, 2020

Rajesh Chouhan, a construction worker in the city of Bangalore, walked for ten consecutive days and 1,200 miles to reach his home village of Srinagar Babaganj in Bihar. Rajesh Chouhan was one of millions of migrants who, in the aftermath of COVID-19 and the government response to the pandemic, chose to return to their home … Continue reading "No Migrants In My Backyard: How Bad Urban Planning Created a Humanitarian Disaster in India"