Category: Features

• Testing the Waters of the Blue Economy’s Impact on the Economies of SIDS

  7–11 minutes

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  April 1, 2024

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  Ananya Mittal, Features, World

  Ocean resources provide indispensable opportunities to economies worldwide, driving sustainable growth and fostering innovation. To account for their growing importance, Small Island Developing States have been at the forefront of the incorporation of the Blue Economy. While certainly a step in the right direction, this novel concept will bring forth a multitude of challenges that…

  

• Saffron Demagoguery: How the Four-Year Undergraduate Program is a Prodigal Lie

  13–19 minutes

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  April 19, 2023

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  Features, Pranav Mittal, World

  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reintroduced the Four-Year Undergraduate Program in 2020 under the New Education Policy, even though it was previously rescinded in 2014 on grounds of privatizing India’s public higher education system…

  

• Economics’s Fool’s Gold: A Critical Evaluation of the Randomista Revolution

  8–12 minutes

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  February 6, 2023

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  Economic Theory, Features, Pranav Mittal

  The Randomista movement radically transformed how economic research is broached and public welfare policies are conceived through the incorporation of randomized control trials.