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Nobel thoughts

Good Economics for Hard Times has a much broader canvas and covers globally important public policy issues, such as trade, immigration, environment and, of course, economic growth

Development economics after the Nobel Prize

In a world of crushing inequality and aggregate demand stagnation, the new laureates bring some cheer in showing us that incremental changes pursued steadfastly can add up to a lot

Abhijit Banerjee's idea of privatisation won't end PSBs' NPA woes: Unions

Instead, the unions said, ensuring 'proper governance in the system' and 'removing political interference' will address the problem of NPAs

Odisha signs pact with Abhijit Banerjee's J-PAL for anti-poverty schemes

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are co-founders of J-PAL

Experiment and reason

Economic and medical RCTs have the same limitations: the difficulty of true randomisation, or that variations in individual outcomes might be large even if the average effect is favourable

Abhijit's Nobel and the challenges ahead

The fruition of Nobel's hope lies in the response of a caring government that can rise above politics and propaganda

Best of BS Opinion: The clouds over 2020, Corporates 2.0, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Growth, income, poverty and the Nobel

There is good reason for caution in applying the results of randomised control trials across space and time

From Amartya to Abhijit: How India has changed in the last two decades

In the last two decades, not only have the Indian society and politics changed - becoming more narrow and less catholic, the economists too have changed in a significant way

PM Narendra Modi joked that media trying to trap me: Abhijit Banerjee

Prime Minister calls meeting with Abhijit Banerjee excellent; professor thanks Modi for unique experience

Abhijit Banerjee refuses to comment on govt, says Modi joked about media

In a media interaction after the meeting at the prime minister's official residence, Banerjee refused to take questions on the state of economy and refrained from commenting on policies of the govt

Top headlines: Infosys battles whistleblower scandal, Chidambaram gets bail

P Chidambaram gets bit of court relief and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abhijit Banerjee have an "excellent meeting".

Excellent meeting with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, says PM Modi

Esther Duflo not present at the meeting

Inflation not a bad thing! Highlights of Abhijit Banerjee's take on economy

Abhijit Banerjee, who recently won the Economics Nobel Prize, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, spoke to Rajesh Kumar about the concerns facing the Indian economy; here are the highlights

Reducing taxes to boost investments is a myth, says Abhijit Banerjee

Countries from China to India to Indonesia are slashing taxes for businesses to spur growth amid a gloomy outlook for global economic expansion

Inflation isn't a bad thing; it keeps labour demand up: Abhijit Banerjee

Given that the wages don't fall, you have to do something to make the real wages flexible, says Banerjee

Letter to BS: Deliberate attempts to insult Abhijit Banerjee are ridiculous

It is the team which has got the Nobel Prize, not only Banerjee.

Your job is to revive economy, not to run 'comedy circus': Priyanka to govt

Priyanka Gandhi was attacking Union minister Piyush Goyal after Goyal said Nobel Laureate Banerjee is left leaning and the idea of NYAY proposed by Congress was rejected by the people of India

India must shun nativism to progress; it needs both hard work and Harvard

The scapegoating of a Nobel Prize-winning native demonstrates the pitfalls of nationalism

Abhijit Banerjee is Left-leaning, no need to accept what he thinks: Goyal

Banerjee recently said the Indian economy is on a shaky ground, adding data currently available does not hold any assurance for the country's economic revival anytime soon