Nadia's POV
Dr. Mehta had proposed three options. I'd chosen this one because it said exactly what the paper did without performing importance. He'd agreed immediately, which told me we thought the same way about language.
We were four months into the eighteen-month timeline. The methodology section was finished. The data collection was underway across six tier two cities in Maharashtra and three in Rajasthan. Dr. Mehta's team on the ground, my framework driving the variables.
I sent the methodology section to Carol on a Tuesday.
She called twenty minutes later.
"The World Bank has a development economics working group," she said. "They publish frameworks that influence policy across member countries." A pause. "I sent them the Mumbai presentation in May. They've been in touch."
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