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May 9, 2024 · Abhijit Banerjee (born February 21, 1961, Mumbai, India) is an Indian-born American economist who, with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for helping to develop an innovative experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.
May 18, 2024 · My rating: 5 of 5 stars. Poor Economics is a book which discusses the various methods adopted by Western philanthropists and academics to fight poverty in the developing world and judges the efficacy of these policies through the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). RCTs are a research approach where economists randomly select ...
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By HT News Desk. May 17, 2024 08:09 AM IST. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who joined the BJP after resigning from his post as the Calcutta high court judge, allegedly asked what "Mamata Banerjee's...
TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is a two-time MP from the seat and is seeking a third term. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Abhijit Das against from Diamond Harbour.
May 20, 2024 · October 21, 2020, Video: "Michael Kremer is best known for his academic work researching global poverty, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2019 along with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. Less known is that he is also the founder of five non-profits and in the process of creating a sixth.
May 16, 2024 · The world's largest Universal Basic Income trial is currently underway in Kenya. It involves 295 villages and more than 20,000 families. The trial has just reached the two-year mark and Nobel-Prize winning economist, Abhijit Banerjee, joins us to talk about its progress – both economic and social.
