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I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to start with.

I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.

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So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard...

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.

In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.

I am not partisan in my economic thinking. We work with any number of state governments, many of which are BJP governments.

If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have...

We are specialists who have something special to say. We have had no problem with working in any state interested in evaluating their policies.

We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.

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.

Healthcare expenses often wipe out families.

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially...

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

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.

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

If PM-Kisan is implemented well, it will leave some money in the hands of poor farmers.

I'm not an early morning person.

If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.

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