More than 700 million people across the globe live on extremely low wages. This year, a trio of economists won the Nobel Prize for their work on addressing global poverty, using randomized control ...

Last week I had the good fortune to sit down for lunch with MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee — one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences — just hours before he was ...

Early in his career, economist Abhijit Banerjee didn’t see himself writing books for broad, non-expert audiences. Now, on the heels of receiving the Nobel Prize and releasing his latest book Good ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian politicians and academics cheered the Nobel economics prize awarded on Monday to Indian-born American Abhijit Banerjee, whose proud mother told visitors crowding into her ...

The University of Zurich welcomes Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, two pioneers in the field of development economics. Both economists are currently employed at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are both winners of the Nobel economics prize. They're also married ...to each other! We talked with them recently, and asked them if they'd be willing to ...