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1 day ago · Esther Duflo’s ‘Poor Economics for Kids’ looks at questions surrounding poverty through the stories of the character Nilou and her friends. New Delhi: Economics and poverty are not topics that make for light reading. But for Esther Duflo, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, it is important to have good books on these topics for children ...
1 day ago · Duflo’s work has long focused also on the reciprocal and intimate relationship between women’s empowerment and economic development. Gender empowerment, defined as improving women’s ability to access the constituents of development—health, education, earning opportunities, rights, and political participation—can accelerate development.
Unusual lessons: Editorial on Esther Duflo's book 'Poor Economics for Kids'
The poor should know about the economics of poverty. This is what the economist, Esther Du...
The Telegraph
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Letters to the Editor: ‘Chaarsau bees’ will continue to live on in popular parlance
Its imprint extended far beyond the realm of law and justice — ‘chaarsau bees’ is used all over the country to describe someone who is cunni...
The Telegraph
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Jun 10, 2024 · The MicroMasters in DEDP curricula is based on the Nobel Prize-winning work of MIT faculty members Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, and Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics.
Jun 24, 2024 · Esther Duflo Économiste franco-américaine et professeure, prix Nobel d'économie 2019. J’attendais que les propositions et leur chiffrage se stabilisent un petit peu avant de pouvoir en parler plus posément.
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1 day ago · Banerjee and Duflo's commitment to empirical evidence and their nuanced understanding of the lives of the poor make the book a vital contribution to the field of development economics. Their work underscores the complexity of poverty and the need for thoughtful, context-specific solutions rather than one-size-fits-all approaches.
Jun 12, 2024 · Through MIT Open Learning, anyone in the world can try their hand at free and low-cost online courses taught by some of the Institute’s Nobel laureates. Start learning economics, physics, chemistry, or biology on MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, or MITx MicroMasters today.
Jun 8, 2024 · Esther Duflo is the youngest economist to win this honor and the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics (the first was Elinor Ostrom, for her work on economics He won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for his analysis of governance, especially public economic governance).