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There are 32 languages with more than a million speakers each in India. Imagine the potential for conversational AI & Large Language Models! What makes it imminent? India has the cheapest internet services + near universal mobile access. #TransformingIndia

Disruptions from US threats of reciprocal tariffs would depend on a country’s direct exposure to US markets as a proportion of their total exports. How are the 10 biggest economies looking? - Canada extremely vulnerable - China reduced direct exposure by routing through Mexico,

Right judgements Vs. Sensible judgements.

My article in The Hindu today discusses the need for bipartisanship in moments of crisis:

Good bye, #JayantNarlikar sir… Om shanti

I had missed this earlier. Just watched today. Very informative & interesting as I expected. Good choice ⁦Smita Prakash⁩. Thank you Dr ⁦Prof. Shamika Ravi⁩, nicely done. youtu.be/iDt-62yYZ9U

Our strategy used to be “just in time.” Now it has become “just in case.” - MD of a major MNC in Tokyo laments the uncertainty unleashed by US trade policies. #RaisinaTokyo

Am staring at the majestic Mt. Fuji as India’s GDP overtakes Japan to become the 4th largest economy in the world. India’s journey ahead is exciting and a major cause for optimism in the midst of global uncertainties. There is much to learn for us, from the extremely hard working

This is not a rare phenomenon. In the last few years, I have come across several such cases where NRIs have travelled to India for medical treatment after months of frustration in the US.

Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring about transparency in the Indian real estate What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new Journal of Public Economics paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?" Link sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵👇 1/6

In an 2021 Journal of Urban Economics paper (Vaidehi Tandel Alex Tabarrok Prof. Shamika Ravi) we found that Mumbai has 27.3% of projects under litigation. Construction time is 8.5 yrs & litigated projects take longer. Litigated projects are "lemons" 2/6

My first boss, Dean MR Rao passes away. Travel well MR…🙏

President Droupadi Murmu confers Padma Bhushan in the field of Literature and Education on Dr. Bibek Debroy (Posthumous). Dr. Debroy was a distinguished economist, scholar, and policy advisor, known for his significant contributions to India's economic governance, legal reforms,

“Operation Sindoor pitted India’s indigenously developed weapons systems against Chinese-supplied platforms fielded by Pakistan. And India didn’t just win on the battlefield—it won the technology referendum. What unfolded was not just retaliation, but the strategic debut of a

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I am happy to see this analysis. Honest experts across the political spectrum will come around to accept India's historic achievement in poverty eradication. The analysis below is accurate & consistent with our own findings reported earlier. There are, however, two small quibbles

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In the last few months, I have come across a few articles that compare decline in poverty between two time periods: 2004-05 to 2011-12 Vs. 2011-12 to 2022-23 - to conclude that it was higher in the previous years. They all make the same fatal flaw. They base their arguments on