My last meeting with Professor Abhijit Sen was just a week ago, before his untimely death due to a heart attack on August 29. We were trying to make sense of trends in the Indian economy, particularly in poverty, inequality and…
Professor Abhijit Sen, economist and former faculty at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP) in Jawaharlal Nehru University passed away on August 29 due to a sudden heart attack. Primarily a teacher, he was also involved in policy-making in…
Expectations from Budget 2021 were high. Unsurprisingly so, for an economy battered by two years of slowdown, with a pre-pandemic annual growth rate of 4 per cent being a decadal low and the subsequent collapse in economic activity due to the…
