Dr Amrita Saha, LSE India Observatory Visiting Fellow, has received the International Economic Research Award (IERA) from the Export-Import Bank of India in recognition of her PhD research. The award was first instituted in 1989 with the objective to promote research in international economics, trade, development and finance by Indian nationals at universities and academic institutions in India and abroad. Amrita was in Delhi for a ceremony where she received the award on 9th August and the Bank has published two outputs based on her PhD research. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/textonly/india/research/outputs/SahaEximIERAaward2017.pdf
International Trade Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, co-chaired the twelfth meeting of the UK-India Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) in London on Thursday 11 January with Shri. Suresh Prabhu, Minister for Commerce and Industry. http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-01-11/HCWS397/
Experts including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern said governments needed to move quickly to tackle polluting industries with a tax on carbon dioxide at $40-$80 per tonne by 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/sky-high-carbon-tax-needed-to-avoid-catastrophic-global-warming-say-experts