Arvind panagariya amartya sen biography
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Prof Amartya Sen is once again in the news as he recused himself from being considered for another term as the Chancellor of Nalanda University, come July, for reasons he outlined in this open letter.
The Nobel laureate sat down with HuffPost India recently and spoke about a range of issues, including India’s continued failure to invest sufficiently in and nurture public education and healthcare, his thoughts about the new government at the Centre and the rise of the Hindutva discourse, Arvind Panagariya’s tenure at NITI Aayog, and his thoughts about the intellectual spat characterized as the “Sen-Bhagwati debate”.
This is the second in an exclusive two-part interview conducted in person and over email. The first part is here. These are edited excerpts.
HI: This govt has done away with the planning commission now. It seems to want to do it in a very different way with NITI Ayog and Professor Panagariya and Bibek Debroy leading the thinking in that institution, what do you think are the opportunities in front of this government? The budget is also coming…
AS: I never comment on the budget. In judging the general economic strategy of a country, any particular budget tends to be a fairly minor event. We have to see the long term direction of what the government
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What Amartya Sen doesn't see
Two extreme characterisations of the positions of the two sides have emerged. The first has it that the differences between them are minimal with each side expressing the same ideas in a different language.The second depicts Bhagwati as advocating solely growth and Sen solely social spending. Both characterisations are plain wrong.
Begin with the point on which the two sides agree. We have no disagreement with Sen on the objective. He would like to see poverty, illiteracy, ill health and other deprivations eliminated. We whole-heartedly accept this goal. Indeed, as India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehruwrote in The Discovery of India, the 1938 planning committee of the Congress had adopted this very goal for development planning and the latter indeed guided our policies in the entire post-Independence era.
But agreement ends here. Sen thinks that the starting point for achieving the desired goal must be an immediate massive attack on illiteracy and ill health. This would not only directly
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Beyond the Bubble
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