-The Hindu Despite limitations, the use of randomised control trials has led to a paradigm shift in development policy evaluation If Rip Van Winkle was an academic economist and woke up from a two-decade long sleep this week, he would be baffled by the news of the Nobel Prize in Economics this year awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer for pioneering the use of randomised control trials (RCTs) in...
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Subhash Palekar, father of Zero Budget Natural Farming, interviewed by N Madhavan (The Hindu Business Line)
-The Hindu Business Line Speaking to BusinessLine at a farm on the outskirts of Aurangabad, Subhash Palekar, father of ZBNF, rebuts every criticism and allays every fear that have been raised The Modi government sees zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) as a solution to the farm crisis. The 2018-19 Economic Survey recommended it and so did the 2019 Union Budget. In fact, Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised many by asking farmers not...
More »Livestock population in India rises 4.6 per cent to nearly 536 million, shows census
-The Hindu Business Line Cow population up 18 per cent in seven years but number of oxen plunges 30 per cent The population of cows in the country has risen by 18 per cent in the last seven years, while that of oxen dipped by 30 per cent, according to the latest census of livestock. The total number for livestock was pegged at around 536 million. The provisional data of the 20th Livestock...
More »Nobel winner Abhijeet Banerjee's advice to govt: Make policies that work; govt teachers are overpaid
-Financial Express Indian-American Nobel prize winner economist Abhijeet Banerjee on Monday said that the government should make policies that work for the people. Indian-American Nobel prize winner economist Abhijeet Banerjee on Monday said that the government should make policies that work for the people, TV news channel CNBC TV-18 reported. There is a willingness to announce policies that sound good and serve the political purpose dictate their nature, he also said in...
More »Curbing black money: Printing of Rs 2,000 notes stopped, says RTI reply -Kumar Vikram
-The New Indian Express According to the central bank’s RTI reply, 3,542.991 million notes of Rs 2,000 were printed during the financial year 2016-17. NEW DELHI: Have you been wondering why the ATMs have been barely dispensing Rs 2,000 notes for last few months? That’s because the printing of the high-value note has been stopped, the Reserve Bank of India informed this newspaper in reply to an RTI query. &NBSp; &NBSp; The Bharatiya Reserve Bank...
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