Parminder Bahra

Parminder is poverty and development correspondent of Times Online. He was previously Executive Editor of Times Online and has been a journalist for 14 years covering a variety of beats at The Times and Financial Times. Before becoming a journalist, Parminder was a development economist. He also goes on electoral observation missions for the Organisation for Security and Development in Europe (OSCE).

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