The pursuit of hawkish nationalism is detrimental to the growth of a country’s economy, Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of international studies and professor of economics at Cornell University...
“Sir, please look here, this is our constitution.”
The ‘sir’ was former World Bank chief economist Kaushik Basu, who immediately turned to Sayna Naaz, a Class VI student of th...
Even though the fundamentals of the Indian economy are strong, the rise in divisiveness and polarisation is damaging the foundations of the nation’s growth, former World Bank chief economist Kau...
A lot was discussed in an informative session featuring Kaushik Basu and hosted by the Ladies Study Group on January 21. The Friday morning session began with two distinguished personalities from the ...
Above all this, the attribute which I find most endearing about Kaushik da is that I have hardly met someone as nice as him. Just a wonderful human being. I write this piece on the occasion of his 70t...
Economist Kaushik Basu said India used to be “an open society”, while addressing students of Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira during its annual convocation.
Basu, Carl Marks professor of ...
Terming allegations of manipulation of World Bank’s Doing Business Ranking as ‘shocking’, former chief economist of World Bank Kaushik Basu said on Saturday that pressure was there f...
Hiding data to please political masters is not only harming the once-stellar reputation of the country but also preventing policy-makers from taking corrective measures, former World Bank chief econom...
Economist Kaushik Basu spoke about India's tradition of “openness, tolerance and compassion” that Swami Vivekananda and Sri Ramakrishna embodied and stressed the need to say no to hatr...
Arvind Subramanian did flag grave concerns on the economy. So did Kaushik Basu and several others.
The dire remarks fell on deaf ears in the Narendra Modi government. Understandably, because Subraman...