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I'm not an early morning person.
I am half Bengali and half Marathi.
Healthcare expenses often wipe out families.
I think when I say my county, it is always India.
For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.
Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.
We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.
Milk production is one of India's great success stories.
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.
Jawaharlal Nehru did a huge amount for education in India.
Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.
Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.
People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.
Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful.
I have learnt an enormous amount from talking to people on the ground.
The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.
I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.
You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.
The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place.
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.
Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.
If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves.
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low.
It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.
If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.
When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.
I am not partisan in my economic thinking. We work with any number of state governments, many of which are BJP governments.
If you happen to be mostly depressed about the state of your life, I don't know whether you feel like doing impulse control.
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.
The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.
In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker.
Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.
Will we make all poverty history? No. But can we solve some of these extreme and egregious forms of poverty? I think yes, and we should.
Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.
If there can be films about why hockey (and not just cricket) is cool, there can be a film or two about the virtues of honest, hard work.
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.
What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.
We are specialists who have something special to say. We have had no problem with working in any state interested in evaluating their policies.
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.
To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.
I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.
There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.
In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.
I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground.