India has an exceptional opportunity to become the Research and Development (R&D) Hub for the world. With a few more reforms, India is tantalizingly close to becoming that place of excellence in research. Once India reaches the threshold, then the opportunities will cascade through the entire economy and society bringing new levels of productivity and prosperity.
In President-elect Joe Biden, India will have a thoughtful American President. An American President who will conduct foreign policy with care, dignity and vision. The American policy will be process-driven and evidence-based.
President-elect Joe Biden, more than any recent President including Barack Obama, has great regard for careful and methodical processes. After all, Joe Biden was a US Senator for over 35 years.
That’s good news for India. It is always better when policies are based on analytical grounding, rather than personal chemistry or whims or fancies.
Joe Biden is the next President of these United States of America. Democrats fall just short of majority in the Senate (with 48-49 seats.)
Updates on US Elections on November 4th at 5:45 PM.
US Elections: Updates on November 4th at 8:45 AM
Here are my forecasts for the elections. Joe Biden will win. The Democrats will gain majority in the Senate. And the Democrats will add to their majority in the House of Representatives. The Democrats will lead The White House, The Senate and The House of Representatives.
There are many epidemiological, econometric and statistical models that have been designed and developed to forecast the diffusion trajectory of Covid 19, and to forecast the mortality and resource utilization.
We have developed a very parsimonious and elegant model to forecast the mortality. This is an application of The Bass Model. We show that the Bass Model does as well as the other extant and sophisticated models.
Black Lives Matter: The Responsibility of South Asians, and All of Us
I have been associated with many Universities globally. And that has been a wonderful privilege, and an opportunity to serve, learn and teach. Thank you all.
As we all know, America is now in the midst of intense action, conversation and reflection about race relations.
Here is how American University Presidents reflect.
I wrote in the last month (month of April) that the mortality in US due to Covid 19 may be less than 70,000 - 80,000. I am wrong, of course. Why?
A discussion of the estimates of the number of Covid1-9 deaths in the United States of America.
Covid 19 has been spreading across the globe with speed and ferocity. Here, in the US too, the infection is inflicting a lot of hurt. The question is: What is a reasonable estimate of mortality?
Where does the Democratic Primary stand today, as we head to Super Tuesday on March 3rd? It is Biden and Sanders now. As I forecast emphatically immediately after Iowa caucuses, it was and will be Biden and Sanders. After Super Tuesday — on March 4th, it will be Biden and Sanders after Super Tuesday.
Joe Biden remains a very viable and serious candidate for the Democratic Party Presidential Nomination. As also Bernie Sanders. Though the odds — contrary to current data — remain slightly in favor of Joe Biden.
The Impeachment Trial of President Donald J. Trump: Articles of Impeachment and Witnesses
Wishing a Happy New Year!
The extant research has established that there is a pioneering market share advantage when the product category is successful, and under certain other conditions. This finding has been found across many product categories. Applying this database of empirical knowledge, we address two important policy issues. How does the market share advantage to early entrants impact the Fifth Generation (5G) network technology market structure? How is financial strength of the firm related to market entry of its brand?
Credit for the Picture: University of California at Berkeley Engineering School
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economists (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Kremer of Harvard University for their experiment-based approach to study the poverty alleviation programs. Congratulations to all of them.
The United Nations General Assembly brought world policy makers and leaders to New York last week. Imran Khan of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India were there. Of course, US President Donald Trump was there — he was the central cast. President Trump met with Khan and Modi bilaterally in New York.
Before the UN meetings, Trump met with Modi in Houston where 50,000 Indian Diaspora had gathered to celebrate and listen to Modi.
After all these meetings, the cheese did not move much.
The United States and China have now been in what appears to be endless trade dispute with no clear path to move forward. While this has been longer than anyone had initially anticipated, it is not surprising given that the dispute involves important, structural matters. China argues that the United States is adopting a discriminatory posture towards China, and points to banning of Hua Wei equipment and service as evidence of this. The United States argues that China is protecting its market and not letting American products and services into China. The US also argues that China is letting violations of Intellectual Property Rights occur without any consequences to that actor(s.)
Whatever be the arguments, it is now time for compromise and resolution.
