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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (pronounced [obʱidʒit bɛnardʒi]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Abhijit Banerjee is a development economist and a co-founder of J-PAL. He won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on poverty and policy evaluation.
Facts. © Nobel Media. Photo: A. Mahmoud. Abhijit Banerjee. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019. Born: 21 February 1961, Mumbai, India. Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
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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.
Oct 14, 2019 · Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, receives the 2019 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for their breakthrough antipoverty work. They use field experiments to study and implement effective interventions in health, education, agriculture, and gender issues.
Biographical. An accidental economist: a brief history. A series of accidents, mostly fortunate, made me the human being and economist that I am. It started with the accident of my birth, to a couple who were both economists.
Abhijit Banerjee is a development economist and the co-founder of J-PAL. He won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics and has authored several books and articles on poverty, education, and Covid-19.
