{"id":28800,"date":"2020-09-30T05:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28800"},"modified":"2020-09-30T05:14:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T05:14:39","slug":"economist-isher-judge-ahluwalia-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/economist-isher-judge-ahluwalia-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Renowned economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia passed away after a 10-month-long battle with brain cancer. She would have turned 75 on October 1 and is survived by husband Montek Singh Ahluwalia and two sons Pavan and Aman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

She was Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Governors, at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was Chairperson, Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in Washington D.C. from 2003 to 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was the chairperson of the Government of India’s High-Powered Committee on Urban Infrastructure Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notable books authored:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Industrial growth in India: stagnation since the mid-sixties.<\/li>
  • Productivity and growth in Indian manufacturing.<\/li>
  • Urbanisation in India: challenges, opportunities and the way forward.<\/li>
  • Breaking Through – A Memoir.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Awards:<\/strong> She was awarded India’s third highest civilian award, Padma Bhushan in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Renowned economist Isher Judge Ahluwalia passed away after a 10-month-long battle with brain cancer. She would have turned 75 on October 1 and is survived by husband Montek Singh Ahluwalia and two sons Pavan and Aman. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points She was Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Governors, at the Indian Council for Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28802,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28800\/revisions\/28802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28800"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}