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India’s Feet and Minds

Despite India’s complex political and economic situation, there is a growing focus on addressing problems' root causes, rather than just dealing (ineffectively) with bad outcomes. The challenge is to think of India's more than one billion people not just as mouths to feed, but also as minds to educate and skilled workers to employ.

NEW DELHI – Last month, I visited the Jaipur Foot clinic in New Delhi. You may have heard of the Jaipur Foot. It is both an invention – a prosthetic foot made from cheap materials costing about $45 (versus $8,000 for a similar device in the United States) – and an amazing, low-cost network of clinics around the world that has served more than 1.3 million people with new limbs, calipers, and crutches.

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