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Attacks on Abhijit Banerjee are repulsive, but Nobel prize does not put him above legitimate critique
Sreemoy Talukdar • 6 years agoThe news of Mumbai-born Banerjee—a Bengali who grew up in Kolkata and studied in JNU winning the coveted award (never mind his co-awardees) exploded as a mega bombshell on India’s polarised political climate
Mocking Abhijit Banerjee's work ethic is bad form, govt must seek Nobel winner's counsel instead
Dinesh Unnikrishnan123 • 6 years agoOver the years, Abhijit Banerjee, along with his wife Esther Duflo has done commendable work in identifying reasons for poverty on the ground through the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which they co-founded with Sendhil Mullainathan in 2003
'Congress' NYAY was not well designed', Abhijit Banerjee tells News18: Nobel laureate speaks on economic slowdown, Modi's Ayushman Bharat
Fp Staff • 6 years agoIndian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard's Michael Kremer, on Saturday said the Congress' Nyutam Aay Yojana (NYAY) scheme, on which he advised Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, was not well designed and said it would have been difficult for the UPA to implement had it come to power.
Piyush Goyal dubs Abhijit Banerjee as Left-leaning; CPI(M), TMC, Congress in West Bengal slam Union minister
• 6 years agoPiyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as left-leaning.
Nobel Prize 2019: The significance of Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo's win and their work in Economics
• 6 years agoEsther Duflo's Nobel Prize win is going to inspire a generation of female economists who have long been sidelined in university economics departments, both as students as academics.
Nobel Prize honours work that benefits humankind; parochial focus on winners' national identity is contrary to its spirit
Samrat • 6 years agoAlfred Nobel, in his will, had written, “It is my express wish that when awarding the prizes, no consideration be given to nationality, but that the prize be awarded to the worthiest person”.
'Indian economy on shaky ground,' says Abhijit Banerjee after winning 2019 Nobel Prize on Economics
• 6 years agoIndian-American MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee said he was delighted that work focused on the world's poorest people has been awarded the Nobel Prize.
Economists couple Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo share Nobel with Michael Kremer: Indian-American a champion of free institutions for strong economies, poverty alleviation
Dinesh Unnikrishnan123 • 6 years agoBanerjee has been quite vocal about the serious state of the Indian economy
MIT economist Esther Duflo wins Nobel in Economics: All you need to know about youngest person to receive this award
Fp Staff • 6 years agoEsther Duflo, a French-American economist, who has won the Nobel in Economics jointly with her husband Abhijit Banerjee and Harvard economist Michael Kremer on Monday, is the second woman and the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel in economic sciences
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer win Nobel in Economics: Modi, Manmohan laud laureates
Fp Staff • 6 years agoSeveral Indian leaders congratulated Indian-origin economist and academic professor Abhijit Banerjee for winning the 2019 Nobel Economics prize jointly with his wife French-American Esther Duflo and US' Michael Kremer