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Thread on #AbhijitBanerjee's talk on Indian economy last Friday. He is this suave, funny prof telling some tough truths to the govt.
I don’t know why India is growing. I know many reasons why it shouldn’t grow, I’ve written about it (stalled liberalisation, broken banking etc)
I don’t know why India is growing. I know many reasons why it shouldn’t grow, I’ve written about it (stalled liberalisation, broken banking etc)
He then digs into India's growth story: long history, big talent size, misallocation of economy is an opportunity of growth, breakdown of the joint family key to the real estate boom, poorly run financial sector makes it easy to gamble ("if you are shameless and brave enough")
He then points to the latest NSSO survey:
If you takeaway one fact from what I have to say, this is the fact. NSS 2017-18, is people on average are poorer than they were in 2014-15, not growth has slowed, they are strictly poorer.
If you takeaway one fact from what I have to say, this is the fact. NSS 2017-18, is people on average are poorer than they were in 2014-15, not growth has slowed, they are strictly poorer.
1/ Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz have been awarded the #NobelPrize2019 in Physics for the discovery of the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.
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2/ The discovery of exoplanet #51Pegasib was announced on 6 October 1995 by Mayor and Queloz, who detected it using the ELODIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence in France.
3/ The discovery revolutionised astronomy, initiating an entirely new field and new instruments focused on finding and characterising exoplanets.
1/ So far this week...
Three white men awarded Nobel Prize in Physics.
Three white men awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine.
#NobelPrize #NobelPrize2019 #equity
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Three white men awarded Nobel Prize in Physics.
Three white men awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine.
#NobelPrize #NobelPrize2019 #equity
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2/ I wrote about the Nobel Prize and where were all the women several years ago for HuffPost. I’m still looking for the women and POC Nobel laureates these days. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_36…
3/ And here are five women who should have been awarded a Nobel Prize. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_40…
James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz will share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. Peebles made theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology; Mayor and Queloz made the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star #NobelPrize
You can read about Mayor and Queloz’s research in this 1995 article on exoplanets (click on the pdf to read the whole article). #NobelPrize physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.…
And the very first mention of Peebles in the magazine is from 1966, just a couple of years after he started his academic career. #NobelPrize2019 #physics
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