With high public debt, it is difficult for the Centre and State governments to choose between fiscal prudence and high ...

Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics, restoring an ethical dimension to economics. He was professor of economics at LSE from ...

V isva-Bharati’s eviction order against Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, to vacate 13 decimal of 1.38 acres of land on the university campus last year, was illegal, the district court in West Bengal ...

Nowhere is the task of deciphering this nation of many varied worlds or many Indias more palpable and onerous than in the ...

An excerpt of the interview by V.K. Ramachandran with Amartya Sen after he won the Nobel Prize, published in our November 6, 1998, issue.

Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing about the trend deflects attention from the central issue, which is the sheer magnitude of inequality and poverty on a world ...

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has asserted the recent Lok Sabha poll results point to the fact that India is not a 'Hindu Rashtra'. He also expressed displeasure that keeping people behind bars ...

Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa, CV Raman and Ronald Ross are the others from Kolkata or have a connection to the city, who won the award. Two of them are from the city’s ...

Amartya Sen is Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also Senior ...