Incredibly powerful, must-watch moment. Thank you, Eddie S. Glaude Jr..

Going by the self-deceptive statements of the entire Congress leadership, one suspects that even before the construction of the Ram temple begins, the RSS might well have achieved its grand 95-year old project of dismantling the old republic. "Hey Ram!"

Our new UNU-WIDER UONGOZI Institute working paper on Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity Institute of Development Studies 👉wider.unu.edu/publication/tr… We examine current technology use in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sector, using nationally representative secondary data and primary data.

India's COVID-19 case fatality rate appears strikingly low. Is it really?, from Minu Philip, Debraj Ray, and S. Subramanian nber.org/papers/w27696

When the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. The economy is very much in safe hands; worry not, India.

Q1FY21 GDP : -23.9%; GVA: -22% Steepest Contraction since 1994! Also, the worst among the G7 economies. #ActOfGod

That's just a list of stuff I hate.

I would urge you to talk to families before tweeting. To this day I haven’t met one parent who hasn’t wanted or felt the responsibility to feed their children...

A ready-to-implement urban employment guarantee plan, by NREGA architect Jean Drèze. #BQOpinion bit.ly/2FrbDhG

That's trickle-down economics in a nutshell! #EconTwitter

Shah Rukh Khan was India. And then India changed. ⁦Shah Rukh Khan⁩ is a product of the institutions and ethos that have made India a proud democracy writes ⁦kaveree bamzai⁩ in this lovely piece theprint.in/opinion/shah-r…

Got my first official non-journalism byline yesterday! In this working paper, we examined the nature of #accountability in #nutrition brought about through the use of scorecards in Tanzania. Have a read if you have the time :) opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handl…

Really proud to have worked on this report with great colleagues! 📘🚨On youth labour market resilience during the Covid-19 crisis -- read all about it here 👇ilo.org/employment/Wha…

Spent so many Sundays of my childhood watching this man recreate magic on court. There might a few male athletes as great as you but none who are as gracious as you are, RF. Seeing you LIVE last night for one last time made this b’day of mine the most memorable one. #FedalForever

For the past 4 years, the work of Noam Angrist has continued to inspire many students of economics like me to go a “little rogue”. So, if you still haven’t looked at the fantastic evidence-driven policy work which his team does, it’s time you do. Congratulations Youth Impact!

My take is similar to @mushfiq_econ but maybe a bit more grim. There are now only two ways that I can see which take you from an Asian university to a top-20 Econ PhD: (a) A Master's degree at LSE/Oxford/Yale IDE etc (b) A predoc with faculty at select schools Many have both.

Those in North London: An intern'l transport company organized delivery of several trucks & 2 cargo planes to leave at 5 am. Bring your donations (blankets, diapers, thermal clothes, & sleeping bags) until 3 am to Hornsey (entrance next to Hornsey train station).#Turkey 1/3

A new paper about a field experiment in Rural India co-authored by one of the most hard-working and talented individuals I know of, trisha harjani, has made it to Journal of Trial and Error! Follow her to learn more about the exciting work she has been doing. Soooo very proud of you, Trisha!

"Urban & elitist" says centre on demand for Same Sex Marriage & yet the optimism and sense of hope as Supreme Court begins hearings tomorrow is unmissable . Here's Utkarsh Saxena Kotia & most moving, Kotia's parents & Utkarsh's sister. Full show youtube.com/watch?v=NIFpAW…

A new India-China fact (to me): The Chinese state prioritized primary education over secondary/tertiary, while the Indian state did the opposite. Chinese primary enrollment rate passed India in 1950, secondary 1975, and tertiary only in 2000!