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    • Nobel duo Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo to lead Zurich research centre amid US funding cuts

      The nobel economists' move comes at a time when academics in the U.S. have expressed growing concern over cuts to research funding and political hostility toward universities under President Donald Trump’s administration.

    • India needs radical expansion of public support for the elderly, economists say

      The share of the persons aged 60 and above in the population is projected to reach 18 percent by 2036 from 9 percent in 2011.

    • Transfer Rs 1,000 to each Indian per month: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo suggest Centre

      Esther Duflo said India was already in a position to start universal basic income quickly as it had the Jan Dhan accounts-Aadhaar-mobile system in place.

    • Review | Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo's new book presents poverty and migration in new light

      Banerjee and Duflo, along with fellow economist Michael Kremer, brought an experimental approach to economics to focus on poverty, and in particular, how the poor make decisions. This approach,while popular in medical research, is a pioneering effort on part of the Nobel prize winners to use randomized control trials in economic studies.

    • Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee suggests govt not cut corporate tax further, should focus on demand

      The economist suggested the government should consider direct cash incentives to boost demand.

    • Are the poor risk averse? Just ask Banerjee and Duflo

      Their papers combine theory and data in an unmatchable way, turning the traditional worldview on its head

    • Economics Nobel – Hail the trio, but the real party can wait!

      One hopes that in future, the Nobel committee expands the scope of the prize to scholars and researchers outside the standard choices

    • The thoughts of Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, largely in his own words

      This year’s winners of the Economics Nobel prize shun clichés about poverty to focus instead on practical solutions arrived at after field experiments among the poor

    • Nobel Prize 2019 | Cash support to farmers a good idea, but amount needs to be higher: Abhijit Banerjee

      Talking about schemes that are already in place in India, the economist said NREGS seems to be a rather solid success in the sphere of rural development.

    • Food security is poor politics too, but who cares

      The states which are not run by the UPA will take the money but focus on its flawed implementation to claim their own food security idea would have done better and that the Congress was insincere about the idea anyway. The Congress-run states, on the other hand, will have to defend the scheme despite its flaws.

    • Poor Economics: New ways of eradicating poverty

      Eradicating poverty is perhaps the highest priority of the Indian government and although statistics claim great success the truth is we still have hundreds of millions living in dire circumstances.

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