ECONOMY

To an average Indian, the very mention of the word 'Swadeshi' reminds of India's independence movement and nationalistic leaders like Mahatma Gandhi; courtesy collective social memory of the recent past. That is how I connected to Dadabhai Naoroji's 'drain of wealth...

This year’s Nobel prize in Economics recognises contributions by Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer in introducing a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty. Their social experiment-based approach has played...