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...members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. And the Internet makes it so easy! For our inaugural prof stalking post, we follow Baker Professor of Economics Martin Feldstein, the former president of the National Bureau of Economic Research on his travels around the world. Well, actually just to India on a NBER-sponsored trip...
Times were good for Marty back in '05. President of NBER, a rumored contender for Chairman of the Federal Reserve, board member of leading insurer AIG. And then things went south--like Marty on his India trip! Check out the pics here...
...exiles 18 and older. But that is not where the story ends. After three years, all three of the boys have dropped out of school. They have been unable to find jobs and are living on the dole. Their circumstances reflect a half-century of Tibetan-exile existence in India: self-segregated by exile leaders fearful of its losing its cultural identity, the community has not assimilated into India. Many among the younger exiles can't wait for the first opportunity to return to Chinese-ruled Tibet - or a chance to move to any country other than India. (See pictures...
Even Tibetans born and raised in India - second- and third-generation refugees - find the going tough when it comes to finding work. According to the Tibetan Demographic Survey carried out by the Central Tibetan Administration, unemployment rates are as high as 75%. "I know many people without jobs," says Theton Jigme, 31, an employee with the Central Tibetan Administration who found his present job three years after completing an undergraduate degree at a university in Chandigarh. "We have some 1,250 Tibetan students graduating each year, but we can only provide government jobs to 5% of them." (See pictures...
...unemployment problem has roots stretching back to the first wave of migrants - about 80,000 of them - who followed the Dalai Lama to India in 1959. Many of them were unschooled, unskilled nomads who found only low-wage jobs in road construction. A few thousand were allotted uninhabited jungle land in southern and northeastern India and given training to become farmers. Later, some received subsidies to help market traditional handicrafts. But the vast majority of migrants settled in Dharamsala along with the Dalai Lama. The local economy was unable to absorb them. A mere lucky few found odd jobs...