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We should redefine the metric for effective lending, viz., prioritise loans to enterprises, which will generate more employment. Urjit Patel
Will Enterprises Viz More Generate Employment Redefine Metric Effective Which Lending Should Loans
Enhanced transparency has helped to reinforce the stability of India's financial system. Urjit Patel
Financial System Financial System India Stability Transparency Helped Enhanced Reinforce
There are some things that are under our control, and that is to ensure that we ourselves follow sound macroeconomic stability rules. Urjit Patel
Control Our Rules Ensure Ourselves Follow Some Some Things Sound Stability Things
If very fundamental reforms take place, especially when it comes to factors of production like land, labour, then a higher growth rate is possible. Urjit Patel
Possible Rate Higher Factors Take Like Very Labour Reforms Place Land Then Production Fundamental Growth Growth Rate
It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability. Urjit Patel
Easy Quick Stability Regarding Gains Away
Growth is always there in the MPC's scheme of things; we don't lose sight of that, but not at the cost of inflation. Urjit Patel
Inflation Lose Sight Cost Scheme Always Growth Things
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please. Abhijit Banerjee
World Power Please Dream Exactly Advantage Being
One does not have to agree with his views to be intrigued by the possibilities opened up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's emergence as communicator/harangue-master in chief. Abhijit Banerjee
Possibilities Intrigued Minister Emergence Prime Prime Minister Opened Does His Up Chief Views Agree
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia. Abhijit Banerjee
Buy Saying You Game Phone Old Own Gone Enough All Night Some He Feel Like Importance Knows Till His Hand Up Forever Child Anyone Happens Again Old Enough Then Your Who Playing Night
Climate change is something that we cannot fix alone - it is the original collective action problem - it will not work unless almost all the large economies of the world act together. Abhijit Banerjee
Work Alone Change Together Problem World Will Collective Action Unless We Cannot Something Almost Almost All Economies Climate Climate Change Fix Cannot Act Large Original
What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers. Abhijit Banerjee
Great Inspire Leader Find Ability Fact He She Empower Makes Answers Us
If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all. Abhijit Banerjee
Democracy Respect Leader Mutual Mutual Respect Leads Articulation Showing
In my own work, I have written about how our public sector bank officials avoid making any new lending decisions - because lending always exposes them to some (infinitesimal) risk of being blamed for the loan going wrong. Abhijit Banerjee
Work Loan Own Our Sector Some About My Own Risk Blamed Written Wrong New Because Always How Making Officials Any Going Bank Being Decisions Lending Public Them Avoid Public Sector
The BJP must nurture the institutions that put credible checks and balances in place. Abhijit Banerjee
Nurture Must Put Checks Checks And Balances Institutions Balances Place Credible
Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the State to decide what we can read or watch - it's still someone else's problem. Abhijit Banerjee
People Problem Challenge Few Films Else State Books Someone Take Mass Read Protests Still Very Get Few People Often Banned Decide Right Streets Watch
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas. Abhijit Banerjee
Mistake People Made Big Rich Nice Live City Delhi Colonies Area Big Mistake Green Dusty Which While Poor Rich People Means
If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low. Abhijit Banerjee
Work People Will Our High Costs Remain Labour Blue-Collar Want Low Competitiveness
I think it is a very important point for India to create a bureaucracy that lives on the ground and gets its stimulus from how life is on the ground. Abhijit Banerjee
Life Important Think I Think India Point How Stimulus Very Bureaucracy Gets Create Ground Lives
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start a fleet of electric buses that just circle through neighbourhoods connecting them to the various public transport hubs? Abhijit Banerjee
Work Home People Problem Car Circle Various Through Take Makes Metro Getting Just Stop Public Bus Buses Them Fleet Electric Transport Connecting Many Why Why Not Start
There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business. Abhijit Banerjee
Government Business Doubt Rule Way No Doubt About Had Years Central Central Government Certain Lethargy Last Set
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch. Abhijit Banerjee
Me Seen Own Sense Would Muted Superiority Classmates My Own More Had Knew Failing Over Been Woodwork Much Many
Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality. Abhijit Banerjee
Reality Space Nation Believe Every Too Our Rightly Objective Seem Morally Compromised Ideals Wrongly Often Held Necessarily Every Nation
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently sensitive to other people's concerns. Abhijit Banerjee
Me People Will Other Worries Details Impatient General Excuse Concerns Confess Often Being Sensitive Decisiveness
The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him. Abhijit Banerjee
Business Before Congress Has-Been Investment Supportive Him Climate Came Been Governments Very Same Interests
It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth. Abhijit Banerjee
Environmental Crisis Undeniable Partly Looming Population Population Growth Growth Consequence
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents. Abhijit Banerjee
Life Education Government Thought Free Parents Unfair Radical Intervention Consider Market Willing Some Born Free Market Primary Because Were Get Children Poor Grounds Even Chance Milton
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