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

KOLKATA: Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee has advised the Bengal government to reopen schools for all classes immediately. Presently, physical classes for students of VIII to XII have resumed, ...

KOLKATA: Noble laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee will speak at a webinar organised by Maulana Azad College on August 25. He will be speaking on the topic Every Child Counts : Towards a more democratic ...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee leads a forum on how to fight global poverty, with responses from Jagdish Bhagwati, Robert H. Bates, Alice H. Amsden, Ruth Levine, and others. Rebecca Saxe on “the wild child” ...

Kolkata: Nobel Laureate Dr Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, who is a member of the state government's Global Advisory Board for Covid Response Policy, urged people to wear mask, wash hands at regular ...

International aid programs are often haphazard and ineffective tools to battle global poverty, and would benefit greatly if administrators applied academic rigor to decisions about what types of aid ...

To use international-aid dollars more effectively, to stimulate growth and ease poverty in developing countries, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee advocates using random tests to determine which programs ...

Kolkata: Successful micro-level field experiments like the one that established a connect between barefoot children, whooping cough and school drop outs in Africa characterise the works of Abhijit ...

Indian American economist Abhijit Banerjee, who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, released a cookbook Nov. 15 entitled, “Cooking ...