Why is this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics important for India?

The laureates’ award-winning work sheds some light on the lasting effects of colonialism on the economy—a problematic period that India is yet to truly recover from.

17 October, 20246 min
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Why is this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics important for India?

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