Harvard Economists

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  Indian-American Economist Raj Chetty Gets Top Harvard University Prize

  Prominent Indian-American economist Raj Chetty has been awarded the coveted George Ledlie Prize for wielding big data to break myths about who achieves the American Dream and the obstacles faced by others.

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  IMF Chief Economist Gita Gopinath To Leave Job, Return To Harvard University

  IMF's Chief Economist Gita Gopinath will leave her job in January next year and return to the prestigious Harvard University, according to the global financial institution.

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  Gita Gopinath To Leave IMF, Return To Harvard University In January

  International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist Gita Gopinath will leave her post and return to Harvard University's economics department in January, the Fund announced Tuesday.

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  Opinion: New Signs That India's Economy - And Credibility - Is In Crisis

  Now, Arvind Subramanian, a well-regarded economist who was till last year one of PM Narendra Modi's most senior advisers, has argued in a Harvard working paper that the country's official figures overestimate growth by several percentage points.

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  Harvard University Professor Gita Gopinath Appointed IMF Chief Economist

  Indian-origin Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath has been appointed chief economist of the International Monetary Fund or IMF. She replaces outgoing IMF chief economist Maury Obstfeld, who will retire in December.

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  Harvard Economists Face PM Modi's Censure After GDP Surprise

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at critics of his cash ban after government data showed surprisingly strong growth that helped India retain its position as the world's fastest-growing big economy.

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  Lucky To Get Her, Says Kerala Chief Minister About Harvard's Gita Gopinath

  Gita Gopinath, a renowned economist and professor at Harvard University, has been appointed the top economic adviser to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a selection which has been circled by some as incongruous with his party's ideology.

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  Indian Economy Can Grow at 9% for a Decade: Lawrence Summers

  India has the potential to grow at 9 per cent for a decade and 8 per cent in subsequent years if the country takes bold reform measures, eminent economist and Harvard University professor Lawrence Summers said on Saturday.

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  How Stanford Took on the Giants of Economics

  Stanford University has lured an all-star lineup of economists to Palo Alto, California, in the last few years - and fended off Harvard's and MIT's attempts to woo Stanford economists.

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  Raghuram Rajan Wins Praise for not Succumbing to Rate Cut Pressure

  Raghuram Rajan is a celebrity economist known across the globe for predicting the 2008 global meltdown. More recently, he has been referred to as a "celebrity central banker", a phrase used recently by Harvard University Professor Kenneth Rogoff to describe monetary policymakers of major economies.

• Four Indian-Origin Economists on IMF's "Generation Next" List

  Four Indian-origin economists have been featured in in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) list of 25 economists under 45 who are shaping the way one thinks about the global economy

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  MBA From IIMA Offers More Value Than Harvard, Wharton: Report

  Now, a new ranking published by the Economist magazine has placed IIMA much ahead of its Ivy League competitors such as Harvard, Stanford, Kellogg and Wharton. In fact, IIMA is the world's fourth best B-school, when it comes to "Good value MBAs," the Economist says. (Read the story here)

• Credit scores from a test, not a history

  Banks in 16 countries are using a psychometric test to predict behavior - specifically, whether someone will pay back a loan. Originally a Harvard doctoral project, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab's test has increasingly won the confidence of risk-averse bankers in places where, many economists believe, credit bottlenecks are severely stunting grow...

• Rival economists in public battle over cure for India's poverty

  The battle between Amartya Sen, a Nobel Prize winner and Harvard professor, and Jagdish Bhagwati, an eminent professor at Columbia University, has broken out just as India's economy seems to be coming undone.

• Barack Obama names Jason Furman as new White House chief economist

  President Barack Obama nominated adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief economist on Monday, elevating a former campaign aide and Clinton administration official to oversee an agency with wide influence over US economic policy.