The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta ... He is the author of a large number of articles and three books, including Poor Economics, which won the Goldman Sachs Business ...

This stark contradiction is just one of the many themes explored by economist and Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee in his ...

Citations: Karlan, Dean, Abhijit Banerjee, Robert Osei, Hannah Trachtman, Christopher Udry. 2021. Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor. Journal of ...

Esther Duflo has just become the youngest recipient for the Nobel Prize in Economics ... who was co-awarded the title with her husband Abhijit Banerjee, a fellow Massachusetts Institute of ...

Abhijit Banerjee is the second Indian to win the ... which sits awkwardly on his CV along with such weighty titles as Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times (written with his wife ...

Professor Abhijit Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...

Economist Abhijit Banerjee on why he reads ... brought an experimental approach to economics to focus on poverty, and in particular, how the poor make decisions. This approach,while popular ...