2011 What was the trigger for the book Poor Economics (co-authored with fellow MIT professor Esther Duflo)?Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee: We have been doing this work for 15-odd years…. At some point you...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Nobel laureate and Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has said the talk from “the fringes of the ruling part...

In a little over a decade, Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) has evolved into a platform that goes far beyond its speakers, readers, publishers and ideas and becomes a celebration of it all, in its most ...

Good Economics For Hard Times was released for sale just after the authors received the Nobel prize for economics. Obviously, just for that alone the book will, one hopes, find a lot of additional rea...

The Bengal Assembly on Monday adopted a unanimous proposal to felicitate this year’s Nobel prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, the second from the state to get the world’s most prestigious awar...

A satirical short story in which officials keep passing the responsibility of rescuing a man trapped under a jamun tree until the buck finally stops at the Prime Minister’s door has been scrapped fr...

Visiting villages in South 24-Parganas for his new research project, going to College Street boi para and the neighbourhood of their old house on Mahanirban Road are some of the things Abhijit Vinayak...

South Point has sought time to meet Nobel-winning alumnus Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee for students and teachers to personally hand over a book of congratulatory messages and signatures collected for him ...

Mamata Banerjee on Monday announced establishment of a “global advisory board” headed by Nobel prize winner Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee to help her draw up a plan for Bengal economy in the post-lockd...

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo agree that the way forward from the devastating effects of the coronavirus epidemic is saving lives in the immediate future. The challenge of course i...