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Nobel Economics goes to trio for work on tech-driven growth

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Monday to American-Israeli Joel Mokyr, Frenchman Philippe Aghion and Canadian Peter Howitt for their work on the impact of technology on sustained economic growth. Mokyr, 79, won one half of the prize "for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress", the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
Aghion, 69, and Howitt, 79, shared the other half "for the theory...

Hasina regime a ‘terrible tornado’

Bangladesh's interim leader says he felt "dazzled" when asked to take charge after long-serving Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was driven from power last year.

"I had no idea I'd be leading the government," Muhammad Yunus told the BBC. "I had never run a government machine before and had to get the buttons right.

"Once that settled down, we started organising things," the Nobel-prize winning economist said, adding that restoring law and order and fixing the economy were priorities for the country.

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