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MGNREGA: Why dignity of work matters more than doles in rural welfareMGNREGA is not a dole but a dignity-based right to work that strengthens rural incomes, women’s participation and local assets. Proposed re...- Push back those busybodies in public places who should be minding their own businessIn 2012, when Abhijit V Banerjee was yet to win his Nobel gong, he had written an op-ed article that correlated lower middle-class and work...
- Water, India's great bottled-up problemIndia faces an unprecedented water crisis with nearly 600 million people experiencing extreme water stress. Societal divides widen due to w...
- Nobel Prize Winners in India: From Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa to Amartya Sen, here is the full listThe Nobel Prize recognizes outstanding global contributions in various fields, with several Indians achieving this honor. Key laureates inc...
- SC upholds acquittal of Gammon India promoter Abhijit Rajan in insider trading caseA two judge Supreme Court bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice V Ramasubramanian noted that the contract of Gammon was for a Rs. 16...
- Waiter, there's an economist in my soup!Given I can barely cook to save my life, I reached out to Banerjee and Olivier. We were on Zoom and he was in Boston. A chat with him prove...
- Economists, Get Your Cookbooks Out!We suggest a few economists pick up the ladle with one hand and a pen with the other and leave their mark in the gastronomic field. Jean Dr...
- Pranab's son wants to live up to his father's legacy in new role in TMCMukherjee, an engineer-turned politician, said he also wants to help work towards re-industrialising eastern India, which he feels can be t...
- View: Direct cash transfer is not the vaccine for reviving GDP. It’s not even anti-viral remdesivirEconomists like Raghuram Rajan, Abhijit V Banerjee and Manmohan Singh, as well as politicians like P Chidambaram and Yogendra Yadav, have b...
- View: Economies of the 21st century are too complex for a State vs market binaryFrom masters of the universe, are economists now switching to be the gods of small things? Interestingly, last year, well before the hint o...
- Bill Gates is back with his summer reading list - this time with content to face the pandemic and take a break from itIt's more than just books on the list this time.
- View: Despite doubts, there’s enough proof to conclude that foreign trade is good for poorAreas where workers faced foreign competition tended to have greater reduction in poverty rates.
- View: How randomised control trials have indeed been an effective tool for development economicsAn RCT randomly allocates volunteers to, say, two groups. One is treated with the drug in question, the other with a placebo. There are ove...
- Project to turn India into majoritarian nation has 'crippled' economy: CongressCongress spokesperson Manish Tewari also said the slowdown has a humanitarian side to it as manifested in death due to heart attack of an a...
- When two Nobel laureates, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Paul Krugman met at ET GBS 2015At the 2015 ET Global Business Summit, 2019 Economics Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and 2008 Economics Nobel laureate Paul Krugma...
- Abhijit Banerjee joins list of Indian, Indian-origin Nobel LaureatesIndian-American Abhijit Banerjee on Monday won the Nobel Prize for Economics, joining the list of Indians and people of Indian origin to gr...
- Five shortlisted for Visva-Bharati Varsity V-C post; Some have controversial pastWhile vigilance clearances are awaited in some cases following which the names will be sent for presidential approval, the choice of names ...
- Secrets Act panel boss against opening Netaji filesThe move came after Netaji's grandnephew Surya Bose met Modi in Berlin and pressed for the declassification of the files.
- Jadavpur University students end hunger strike as Mamata Banerjee announces V-C's resignationThe CM's announcement was greeted with loud cheers by the agitating students who also announced an end to their hunger strike.
- Food Security Bill: An open letter from economists to PMWe welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernu...
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