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Top Indian Incomes, 1956-2000

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Piketty, Thomas - 2003

This paper presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages from 1956 to 2000 in India using individual tax … were in 1956. We argue that this U-shaped pattern is broadly consistent with the evolution of economic policy in India: The … period from 1956 to the early to mid 1980s was also the period of "socialist" policies in India, while the subsequent period …

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Putting a Band-Aid on a Corpse: Incentives for Nurses in the Indian Public Health Care System

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 2-3, pp. 487-500

The public Indian health care system is plagued by high staff absence, low effort by providers, and limited use by potential beneficiaries who prefer private alternatives. This artice reports the results of an experiment carried out with a district administration and a nongovernmental...

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Good economics for hard times : better answers to our biggest problems

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2019

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Gute Ökonomie für harte Zeiten : sechs Überlebensfragen und wie wir sie besser lösen können

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2020 - 1. Auflage

Wirtschaftsnobelpreis 2019! Zwei preisgekrönte Ökonomen über Versagen und Verantwortung der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler. Ungleichheit, Armut, Migration, freier Handel, Wirtschaftswachstum und Umweltfragen sind die Probleme, die weltweit täglich die Schlagzeilen beherrschen. Hierzu wären...