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Food security bill: Do Amartya Sen's calculations tell the whole truth?
Swaminthan Aiyar, refuting Amartya Sen's calculations, says that selective projections do not tell the whole truth about social disasters in India #Economy #Sonia Gandhi #Congress #BJP #Amartya Sen #ConnectTheDots #Food Security Bill
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Failure to push Food Bill in Parliament unfortunate: Amartya Sen
Noble laureate Amartya Sen on Saturday said it is unfortunate that government has not been able to push through the Food Security Bill that sought to provide subsidised foodgrains to people below poverty line. #Politics #India #UPA #Congress #NewsTracker #Amartya Sen #Lok Sabha #parliament #food bill
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Private healthcare can't improve public health: Amartya Sen
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Monday said that there was a "costly misunderstanding" that private healthcare can improve public health in India. #India #China #NewsTracker #Amartya Sen #Public health
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Economic TimesAmartya Sen: A Nobel Pamphleteer
Amartya Sen, as befits a Nobel laureate, has often produced careful calculations to throw light on dark situations, such as the number of deaths caused by Mao's Great Leap Forward in China. So, it was astonishing to hear him say on a recent TV programme #Amartya Sen #China #India
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Calcutta TelegraphNalanda picks up first batch of research scholars
Nalanda University is ready to enrol its first batch of research fellows even before the construction of the ambitious varsity has begun. Selected through a rigorous process by an international committee comprising academics, the scholars would begin the #Myanmar #Amartya Sen #New Delhi
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Economic TimesTaken aback by Amartya Sen's comments on Food Bill: Arvind Panagariya
Arvind Panagariya, a professor of Indian economics at Columbia University, hits out at Nobel laureate and Harvard University professor Amartya Sen over his call to confront MPs with the "number of deaths" a delayed Food Security Bill can cause. The forme #Amartya Sen #Asian Development Bank #Singapore