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Nobel Prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa has died at 89 in Lima, marking the end of Latin America’s literary golden generation. His legacy spans decades of influential, globally acclaimed literature.
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Yunus, 83, and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace prize for work to lift millions out of poverty by granting tiny loans of under $100 to the rural poor of Bangladesh, pioneering a global movement now known as microcredit
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While his Modern Portfolio Theory forced a fundamental change in the assumptions of investing, its central insight remains theoretical.
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Goodenough was 97 when he received the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry – along with Britain's Stanley Whittingham and Japan's Akira Yoshino, for their respective research into lithium-ion batteries – making him the oldest recipient of a Nobel Prize.
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Robert E. Lucas Jr., who died this week, changed the way his profession measures the effects of economic policies.
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A compilation of writing advice by Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska is wry, insightful and always entertaining.
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Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler on 'Nudge': The Final Edition, Indian examples of nudge versus sludge, and how he thought only his wife and children would read the book when it came out in 2008.
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To celebrate Rabindranath Tagore's legacy, a post was shared by the Nobel Prize Organisation on Instagram on November 13, 2020 – a century after he achieved the feat.
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Candidates eligible for the Nobel Peace Prize need to be chosen by qualified nominators, who can range from former Nobel laureates to university professors. No one can nominate themselves.
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The first such dialogue was held last week when Gandhi discussed the coronavirus pandemic and its economic implications with former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan.
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Striking a note of caution, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has more faith in corporates than him.
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This year’s winners of the Economics Nobel prize shun clichés about poverty to focus instead on practical solutions arrived at after field experiments among the poor
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She championed emerging fiction authors such as Gayl Jones and Toni Cade Bambara, helped introduce US readers to such African writers as Wole Solinka, worked on a memoir by Muhammad Ali and topical books by such activists as Angela Davis and Black Panther Huey Newton.
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Supply of private hospitals far exceeds government and primary healthcare, he says. There is a need for social reforms, public commitment for resources, and also for healthcare delivery, he adds.
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Nobel laureate Amartya
Sen today said he felt the demonetisation decision was taken
hurriedly without thinking about its consequence.
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In an interview to CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan, Nobel Laureate winner Kailash Satyarthi spoke about the campaign focusing on child rights.
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"It (demonetisation) undermines notes, it undermines bank accounts, it undermines the entire economy of trust. That is the sense in which it is despotic," Sen told NDTV.
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The worst victims of a drought are youngsters who are robbed of their childhood, says Nobel laureate, Kailash Satyarthi.
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A Missionaries of Charity official said Sister Nirmala was not keeping well for the past few days and her health was gradually deteriorating.
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Modi is ranked 5th on the 2015 roster of 'World's Greatest Leaders' with Satyarthi coming in at the 28th spot. The list has been topped by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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“The point about quantitative easing, tapering is that monetary policy has only a very limited effect in the United States. It has global repercussions but the effect in creating jobs in the United States is very low,†Stiglitz told CNBC-TV18.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to retain respect for Nobel laureate Amartya Sen. He seems to surface in the media every time the UPA government is about to legislate its pet follies, providing intellectual succour to mindless spending and corruption wrapped up in the package of anti-poverty schemes.
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Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus today sought a review of an apex court verdict that unseated him earlier this year from his position as the chief of the Grameen Bank, the pioneering micro lending agency he had founded three decades ago.
