PM Modi meets co-founder of Bridgewater Associates, highlights reforms taken to foster economic growthPM Modi will attend Yoga Day celebrations at the UN headquarters on June 21. PM Modi will then travel to Washington DC and will receive a c...
PM Modi discusses India's growth story with top American thought leaders in New York"Glad to have met noted economist and Nobel laureate, Professor @paulmromer. We had extensive conversations on leveraging technology to imp...
Modi’s US visit: PM to meet Elon Musk, more than two dozen thought leaders in New YorkTesla is scouting for a location for its factory in India. During an interview by The Wall Street Journal, Musk was asked if the automaker ...
PM Modi to meet Twitter CEO Elon Musk, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and other thought leaders in New YorkPrime Minister Narendra Modi will meet over two dozen thought leaders in the US, including Nobel laureates, entrepreneurs, scientists and e...
How harmful messaging can be disincentivised by levying a ‘sin tax’ on advertising in social mediaSocial media have found that the most addictive way of grabbing the attention of viewers is to shower them with hate and sensational falseh...
IMF Chief called out for 'putting pressure' to lift China's rankings in Doing Business ReportThe substance of the charge -- putting “undue pressure” on World Bank staff to adjust the rating in the “Doing Business” report when she se...
World Bank halts country business climate rankingsThe World Bank said that it was pausing publication of its Doing Business report to probe data collection irregularities in the closely wat...
ET GBS: Nobel laureates Al Gore, Paul Romer to speakEx-US vice-president Al Gore is a leading voice on environment and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Another Nobel Laureate Paul Romer is an auth...
ET View: A call for innovation, and climate actionThe way forward, clearly, is to chalk out a growth path powered by low emissions and increased renewable energy usage.
- US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize
Doing business rankings based on hard data: World BankWorld Bank's chief economist Paul Romer had not said anything on India, which in the latest ranking jumped 30 places to be ranked 100th out...
World Bank projects global growth at 2.7% in 2017In the latest edition of the Global Economic Prospects, the World Bank said growth in advanced economies is expected to edge up to 1.8 per ...
World Bank's chief economist Romer says macroeconomics in troubleRomer agrees that economic models don't dictate to the top Fed policy makers; but he thinks they still wield undue influence, especially am...
India unlikely to see many new cities, says Bibek DebroyDebroy was of the view that almost half of the increase in urbanisation between 2001 and 2011, is in census towns, which raises governance ...
Urbanisation can be efficiently managed with greater fiscal autonomy and careful attention to planningBad planning and governance scarred our cities, with the middle class driven away by rigid ideology, massive migration and industrial tensi...
- List of members of Obama's future cabinet
Here is a list of those tapped so far to be members of president-elect Barack Obama's cabinet and administration when he is inaugurated on ...
- Knowledge and the wealth of nations
New ideas, more than savings or investment or even education , are the keys to prosperity , both to private fortunes , large and small, and...