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India set to boost its economic, geopolitical role: Nobel Laureate Spence

India is poised to boost its economic and geopolitical role in the coming decades, helped by an evolving demographic dividend, rapidly expanding digital economy and GDP growth rates that top the world's major economies, Nobel Laureate Michael Spence has said. Spence further said India's leap on the technology front will be a key catalyst for the economic expansion of the nation, currently the world's fifth biggest economy and its pivotal position in international affairs. "As somebody who has spent the last 25 years thinking about growth in one form or another in virtually every corner of the world, let me just say that the major economy with the highest potential growth rate is India," he told ET NOW. The eminent economist noted that India has successfully developed, by far, the best digital economy and financial architecture in the world. "It is a transformational architecture," he said. Spence said the relatively open global economic system that has been in place for over 70 ye

India built best digital economy, finance infra: Nobel winner Spence

Noting that India is a major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now, Nobel laureate economist A Michael Spence said the country has successfully developed by far the best digital economy and finance architecture in the world. Spence, who was awarded the Nobel prize in Economic Sciences in 2001, shared his views during an interaction with students and faculty at the Bennett University in Greater Noida on Monday. "The major economy with the highest potential growth rate right now is India. India has successfully developed by far the best digital economy and finance architecture in the world. It is open, competitive and delivers services of an inclusive kind to a vast array of territory," the Nobel laureate said, according to a statement issued by the varsity. Spence also pointed out that the world is experiencing a "kind of regime change in the global economy". Tracing the evolution of the global economy after World War II, Spence said that the 70-year-old global ..

A happy life: 2 movies on pursuit of happy life and distractions in between

'Past Lives' and 'Three of Us' celebrate the pragmatism of love over the heady impulsiveness of romance

Chandrayaan-3 to brain decoder, top 10 scientific achievements of 2023

Year ender 2023: Here, we look at some of these achievements, which serve as beacons of inspiration, symbolising the determination of the human spirit in the face of unprecedented challenges

Robert Solow, Nobelist who tied technology to economic growth, dies at 99

Solow's students over his many years at MIT included Mario Draghi, who would go on to lead the European Central Bank and serve as Italy's prime minister

Children of Narges Mohammadi to accept Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf

The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi are set to accept this year's Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony on Sunday in the Norwegian capital. Mohammadi is renowned for campaigning for women's rights and democracy in her country, as well as fighting against the death penalty. Ali and Kiana Rahmani, Mohammadi's twin 17-year-old children who live in exile in Paris with their father, will be given the prestigious award at Oslo City Hall, after which they will give the Nobel Peace Prize lecture in their mother's name. Mohammadi, 51, was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize in October for her decades of activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She is currently detained in a prison in Tehran. At a news conference in Oslo on Saturday, Kiana Rahmani read out a message from her mother, in which the imprisoned activist praised the role international media played in conveying the voice of dissenters, protesters and hu

Rectitude question for a Nobel winner

Science deals with measurements to micro-levels of accuracy and sophisticated statistical methods are employed to tease signals out of noise

Weekend Bites: Another war, trouble in IT paradise, carmakers, 'those guys'

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

TMS Ep541: Maruti expansion, India Inc restructuring, market, Nobel disease

What is Maruti's expansion plan all about? Why is India Inc riding a merger-demerger wave? Which 5G stock is a better bet - Jio or Airtel? What is 'Nobel disease'? All answers here

Claudia Goldin wins the Economics Nobel for work on gender pay gap

The economic sciences award was added by Sweden's central bank in 1968, called the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Nobel Prize 2023 in Economic Sciences awarded to Claudia Goldin

Economic historian and labour economist, Claudia Goldin was recognised 'for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes'

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: What is an attosecond?

In 2023, researchers Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier clinched the Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering work with attosecond-long light flashes, revolutionising electron study. >

Nobel Peace Prize 2023 awarded to Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2023

Nobel Prize winners in 2023, check the complete list, name and fields below

The Nobel Prize winners for 2023 belong to a variety of different fields, a few awards are yet to be announced. Here is the full list of all the Nobel Prize winners in 2023

Norwegian author Jon Fosse awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

64-year-old Norwegian author has been recognised for his 'innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 goes to three scientists; details here

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists for their discovery and synthesis of quantum dots, nanoparticles so little that their size decides their properties

How physics Nobel laureates helped unlock secrets of shortest time frames

The groundbreaking research into attosecond pulses opens doors to a new era of scientific exploration with applications spanning physics, chemistry, engineering and medical diagnostics

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov win Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 rewards the discovery and development of quantum dots

Nobel Prize Literature 2023: Lyudmila, Rushdie, and others in race

Rumours are rife that the Swedish Academy of Nobel prize may award the Nobel Prize in Literature either to Salman Rushdie, known for 'The Satanic Verses' or to Russian author Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L'Huillier win Nobel Prize in Physics

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"