“Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.” — Abhijit Banerjee Quote

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.

The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not the same as private benefit. We have to realise this.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

I am very patient.

I was a hard person to deal with as a patient.

My mom was a bit more excitable, but my dad was the most patient man I've ever met.

I sing everywhere. I have a very patient husband. He says he doesn't mind. But we've only been married a year and a half!

Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.