| 来源类型 | Op-Ed
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| India needs Harvard as well as hard work |
| Sadanand Dhume
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| 发表日期 | 2019-10-18
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| 出处 | The Wall Street Journal
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | What message should New Delhi take from a person of Indian origin winning the Nobel Prize for economics? In a nation increasingly characterized by bristly nativism, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ought to embrace, rather than reject, India’s intellectual diaspora.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences gave the prize to Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee and his wife, Esther Duflo, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and to Harvard’s Michael Kremer. The official announcement lauds their research for having “considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty.” Their work involves the use of randomized controlled trials—a practice borrowed from medicine—to test the efficacy of policy tweaks in poor countries, including India.
The prize made front-page news in India, where the 58-year-old Mr. Banerjee, who studied in Kolkata and Delhi before enrolling at Harvard, was already well-known as an economist, author and columnist. But the response wasn’t universally glowing. Online publications supportive of the BJP headlined Mr. Banerjee’s brief arrest as a student protester in Delhi in the 1980s and his backing for a minimum-income guarantee championed by the opposition Congress Party that voters rejected earlier this year. Assorted trolls on Twitter held forth on why randomized controlled trials are an awful idea.
The full version of this article is available here, on the Wall Street Journal. It will be posted in full to AEI.org on Monday, October 21. |
| 主题 | Foreign and Defense Policy
; India/Afghanistan/Pakistan
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| 标签 | Bharatiya Janata Party
; India
; Indian economy
; Indian politics
; Nobel Prize
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| URL | https://www.aei.org/op-eds/india-needs-harvard-as-well-as-hard-work/
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| 来源智库 | American Enterprise Institute (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/210568
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