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Why In The News: A married woman has asked the Supreme Court to allow her to terminate her 26-week pregnancy. The case has moved between… Read More »Abortion Law In India
In 2023, the Nobel Prize in Economics (Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences) was awarded to Claudia Goldin. She’s a professor of economics at Harvard… Read More »Claudia Goldin: A Pioneer In Gender Economics
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