Nobel economics prizes with a futuristic view

William Nordhaus from Yale University and Paul Romer of New York University's Stern Business School won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics. Their selections represent one of the most optimistically inclined selections for this particular award in recent times. The former has been clamouring for climate change attention for nearly...

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Is education sufficient to address child marriage?

The conventional wisdom suggests that education is the 'gun' to be used against child marriage. Governments in many countries, including Bangladesh, have embarked on a number of programmes to attract girls to schools, and avert dropouts. The critics, however, tend to argue that the success was shining in terms of...

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