I was taken aback by Professor Amartya Sen's comments on food bill: Arvind Panagariya
(Economic Times, 17 May 2013)
Arvind Panagariya, a professor of Indian economics at Columbia University, hits out at Nobel laureate and Harvard University professor Amartya Sen over his call to confront MPs with the "number of deaths" a delayed Food Security Bill can cause. The former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank counters Sen's argument that it is high social spending that has contributed to the economic growth of Asian economies such as Japan, Singapore, China, etc. Panagariya says there are no "systematic empirical studies that support the hypothesis". He also attacks Sen's long-standing arguments about the "Kerala experience". Edited excerpts from an interview with Ullekh NP.