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Look back in anger: Why aren't economists setting down roots in India now?

The economic refugees of earlier years have been replaced by well-placed people leaving (or staying away from) India's unattractive political economy, writes T N Ninan

The next big development challenge

The latest economic forecasts from the IMF and the World Bank are sobering, pointing to protracted slowdowns across the board

Global cooperation can help tackle climate change, financial crisis: Maskin

However, he added that global collaboration will not be easy as more and more nations turn inward-looking

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo receive Nobel in ethnic wear, woo netizens

Abhijit wore a black bandhgala jacket paired with an off-white dhoti, and Esther wore a blue, two-toned saree, while Michael Kremer was spotted wearing a black suit

Three Nobel science laureates stress urgency of addressing climate change

Winners of the prizes in physics, chemistry and economics made the assessment Saturday at a news conference ahead of next week's presentation of the prizes.

Highly problematic that peace prize winner Abiy Ahmed is silent: Nobel body

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has rarely given interviews since taking office last year.

Twitterati pays tributes to Nobel laureate Sir CV Raman on death anniv

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal also paid homage to Dr Raman and posted: "Dr Raman will always be remembered for putting the country on the international platform in the field of science."

Economics and good intentions

Good intentions are best left to political parties, governments and religious establishments

Bangladesh court asks Nobel laureate Yunus to surrender by November 7

The order came in response to a petition seeking a stay of an arrest warrant for Yunus issued by the labor court last month

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

The ignoble strife

The Nobel Prize for literature, like the Nobel Prize for peace, has been a lightning rod for controversy for a very long time

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

The discovery of dark matter

This could eventually lead to better understanding of places where life is most likely to exist

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

A peek into what some Indian Nobel Prize winners did with the award money

While many used to funds to further the causes for which they got the prize, a few were silent on how they used the money

Excellent meeting with Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, says PM Modi

Esther Duflo not present at the meeting

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

History of lithium-ion battery

The 2019 Nobel Prize for chemistry honours three men who contributed to the development of this ubiquitous power storage device