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West Bengal Nobel Laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee said it is not a new phenomenon that inefficient teachers have penetrated the education system over multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam in WB
Noting that temporary school closures will cause permanent damage, he said merely reopening schools will not be enough
The Nobel laureate was sharing his observations from a recent visit to West Bengal.
India should not take the drop in its Global Hunger Index ranking "seriously" as the methodology used for the exercise is 'model-based' and not survey-based, Banerjee said
Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Thursday apprehended that the impending third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic might adversely impact the GDP
Banerjee heads West Bengal's Global Advisory Board (GAB) and advises the state government on issues related to the pandemic
Nobel Laureate says it is 'not clear at all' if bond markets would react negatively to moves to avert crisis.
Leaders and scientists need to figure out what should be done to combat variants of the virus.
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
Banerjee tells Anjuli Bhargava he wants the world to have the right conversations before marching on in its battle against extreme poverty
There is evidence to show that enough people don't know about the benefits of education, says Banerjee
He, however, said that the country will see a revival in growth in the July-September quarter of the current fiscal
One argument that is cited against UBI is that it may generate laziness. The experiment is Kenya, quoted by Abhijit Banerjee and Bardhan, shows that it does not
"India plans to spend less than one per cent of its GDP at Rs 1.70 trillion. We should spend a much-increased proportion of GDP," he said
Economist and former RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan had a similar interaction with Gandhi last week
Abhijit Banerjee pointed out several measures, including giving temporary ration cards, a bigger stimulus package and providing cash to India's poorest 60% to revive the Covid-19-hit economy
From April gold imports plunging to Israeli research team getting a step closer to developing a Covid-19 vaccine, here are the top headlines of the day
According to international media, four Chinese companies have begun testing their vaccine candidates on humans, more than the United States and Britain combined
According to the nobel laureate, spending is the easiest way to revive the economy as MSME sector will get back to its position which will have subsequent chain reaction