- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Caste
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.
- Illusion
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not partisan in my economic thinking. We work with any number of state governments, many of which are BJP governments.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have been as willing.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are specialists who have something special to say. We have had no problem with working in any state interested in evaluating their policies.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground.
- Healthcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
Healthcare expenses often wipe out families.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.
- Economically
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.
- Early Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020