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Foreign aid has lost its shine and powerForeign aid has shifted due to geopolitical dynamics, with the developing world now achieving milestones through self-determination. The gl...- Capitalist monk! A 30-year-old crypto billionaire wants to give his fortune awayHe’s a kind of crypto Robin Hood, beating the rich at their own game to win money for capitalism’s losers.
- Gender Equality: The push women need and wantAAP's poll promise of providing a monthly guaranteed income of ₹1,000 to each woman above 18 has the potential to transform the status of w...
- Raghuram Rajan, Arvind Subramanian, Esther Dufflo and Jean Dreze appointed to join TN Eco Advisory CommitteeDuflo is a French-American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
- Nobel Laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo on free trade & growth from their forthcoming book- Good Economics for Hard TimesIt is so rooted in our culture that we sometimes forget that the case for free trade is by no means self-evident.
- Abhijit Banerjee, the economist who warned India of note ban painBanerjee was also one of the advisors to Congress on the ambitious NYAY scheme, proposed ahead of 2019 polls.
- Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win 2019 Nobel Economics Prize"This year's Laureates have introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty," the acade...
- Reaching for stars: India is betting big on mega, multi-country science projects"The big shift is that India is moving from the periphery to the core of such mega global science projects", says RA Mashelkar former direc...
- Sania Mirza, Virat Kohli lead pack of 56 Indians in Forbes' Asia listAs many as 56 Indians feature in the list with 27-year old Kohli, Mirza and Nehwal and 26-year old actress Shraddha Kapoor leading the pack.
- How startups like Attero Recycling, Karma Recycling are making money out of garbageThe kind of garbage India generates too is changing; plastic waste and ewaste are growing rapidly and state agencies lack the capacity and ...
- Technology should be used to fight illiteracy, poverty: Anand Kumar, Super 30Kumar was invited by MIT and Harvard University to speak on his globally-acclaimed effort to mentor underprivileged students for admission ...
- Super 30 fame Anand Kumar inspires students at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHe gave examples of several Super 30 students who were first generation learners and from underprivileged sections of the society.
- Tomorrow’s engineers will learn architecture, anthropology, sociology as wellTwenty-first century engineers belong to a different league. They are no longer mechanical, electrical, chemical or computer engineers.
- Four Indian Americans selected to prestigious Marshal ScholarshipFour Indian Americans have been selected to the prestigious Marshal Scholarship that will give them an opportunity to pursue higher studies...
- Ten ‘Nudges’ for educationRight to Education (RTE) is a supplyside intervention by the government that will make education cheaper and, in the process, every child w...
- Microcredit may have over-promised, but it still benefits millions: Esther DufloDuflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Our focus is to enrol people suffering from lack of identity: Nandan NilekaniMr Nilekani talks about how participation from think tanks such as Abhijit Banerjee of MIT’s poverty action lab is helping UIDAI. Bandh eff...
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