Maitreesh Ghatak
@maitreesh
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LSE Economics Professor. Essayist. Views personal. Debate & discussion welcome. Trolls muted, abusers blocked.
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Joined July 2014
RT @cepr_org: New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19909 Reassessing India’s Poverty Decline over the Missing Decade: 2011-12 to 2022-23 Maitreesh…
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RT @Ideas4India: 📨 Ideas for India is now on Substack! Subscribe to receive our upcoming content, thematic series & editorial curations -…
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@essayl Absolutely right. It was a reference to the educated middle class. Both in terms of enterprise and hard work, there is no shortage if one steps out of these circles.
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RT @BasuAshis: “Deteriorating livelihood conditions” in addition to an estimated 55% of the workforce being single-worker enterprises or un…
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RT @thewire_in: Worsening Livelihood Conditions, High Share of Low-Productivity Work Concerning: Experts Official data suggests people are…
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RT @MrinaliniJha22: Is better living assured w/ falling unemp numbers? Data suggest not. Deteriorating livelihood conditions + overwhelming…
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RT @AsadIslamBD: Please share! We’re excited to host the Development Workshop for the second time in Durham, UK! Please submit your paper v…
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A good piece by my colleague Francesco Caselli on the contradictions within the electoral coalition that got Donald Trump elected
Donald Trump was elected by an unlikely alliance between the US lower and upper classes. The poor want better-paid jobs, and the super-rich want ever-freer markets & low taxes. How will he reconcile these interests? @LSEforBusiness examines 🔍
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Conferences in Calcutta are always associated with great hospitality and bonhomie with @ramakumarr @MrinaliniJha22 #Maidul_Islam
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The greatest nostalgia buster is old favourite songs sung out of tune and played on the loudspeaker all in the solemn cause of welcoming the New Year. May be it is just as well; it is good to forget the past and embrace the future boldly.
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I have been reading quite a few autobiographies over the recent years and have come to the conclusion that the concept does not make any sense. Autobiographies are really biographies written by people's subsequent selves, selectively recalling and interpreting past events.
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RT @Ideas4India: In a new post, @Josh_Merfeld & @JMorduch argue that, rather than the conventional definition, India’s poverty rate is bett…
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RT @JyotsnaJalan: CTRPFP's Annual International Conference on Public Finance & Public Policy on the 6th & 7th January, 2025
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