09-07-2009, 04:53 PM
PM picks Amartya acolyte as adviser
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Government sources confirmed to The Telegraph that Kaushik, currently a C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, had been persuaded to take the job that Prime Minister Singh himself held between 1972 and 1976.
Basu is a known Amartya Sen acolyte and completed his doctoral thesis on âRevealed Preference of Governmentâ under Senâs supervision in 1976. Basu is the second big-ticket inductee into government after Nandan Nilekani, who assumed charge as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India earlier this month, and brings on board top-flight economic expertise at a time the UPA government is setting its sights high on development upgrade.
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Government sources confirmed to The Telegraph that Kaushik, currently a C. Marks Professor of International Studies and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, had been persuaded to take the job that Prime Minister Singh himself held between 1972 and 1976.
Basu is a known Amartya Sen acolyte and completed his doctoral thesis on âRevealed Preference of Governmentâ under Senâs supervision in 1976. Basu is the second big-ticket inductee into government after Nandan Nilekani, who assumed charge as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India earlier this month, and brings on board top-flight economic expertise at a time the UPA government is setting its sights high on development upgrade.
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