Abhijit Banerjee's prescription for Indian economy: 'Stop PMO interference, raise NREGA wages, pray' -Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

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The economist, who was awarded the Nobel prize on Monday, spoke just last week about what Indian policymakers need to do.

Abhijit Banerjee, the renowned economist who was one of three awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday, put together some prescriptions for what the Indian economy needs right now. The last item on the list? “Pray.” On the next list, for the longer run? “Pray more.”

Banerjee was speaking in response to Raghuram Rajan, another renowned economist and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian prime minister, as part of the OP Jindal Lectures at Brown University in the United States last week.

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