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TopicAbhijit Banerjee

Topic: Abhijit Banerjee

Nobel winner Esther Duflo has a new poverty book for kids. She’s hoping parents learn too

Esther Duflo’s ‘Poor Economics for Kids’ looks at questions surrounding poverty through the stories of the character Nilou and her friends.

Amid row between 2 Calcutta HC benches, SC stays proceedings in Bengal fake caste certificates case

Case relates to fake papers being allegedly used to get medical admissions in Bengal. Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay had accused senior judge of favouring Mamata's TMC.

Why don’t Indian fruit sellers make it big despite good profits? Imperfect competition, says study

Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices.

Indians face ‘extreme pain’, economy still below 2019 levels: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee was virtually addressing students of the Ahmedabad University in Gujarat Saturday night from the US during the varsity's 11th annual convocation.

Many say they can’t cook to save their lives. I don’t believe them: Abhijit Banerjee

In ‘Cooking To Save Your Life’, Nobel Prize-winning economist Abhijit Banerjee writes that it’s a lot safer to trust a cookbook than your instincts.

Welfare system needs redesigning to combat pandemics: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

Addressing a virtual seminar, Abhijit Banerjee focused on the economic aspect of the country’s health situation, welfare and healthcare systems.

India Today talks to Panagariya & Banerjee on farm laws, Republic Bharat on ‘gumrah gang’

A quick take on what prime time TV news talked about.

A Congress strategy and decoding Covid — behind Rahul Gandhi’s video interview series

Indian-origin nurses are next guests in video series, which Congress says aims to showcase Rahul Gandhi as a politician with layers and a working style different that PM Modi's.

IAS officers, Nobel winners, filmmaker — states gather their best to battle Covid crisis

From Tamil Nadu to Maharashtra and West Bengal, multiple states have engaged high-profile experts to find a way out of the lockdown, revive their battered economy.

Twitter suspends fake accounts impersonating Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

Economist Abhijit Banerjee had registered a complaint with Twitter against two fake accounts impersonating him Tuesday.

On Camera

Thailand-Cambodia clash is more than a border fight—it’s a new front in Cold War 2.0

The Southeast Asian theatre is central to the Great Power contest between the US and China. It’s also a landscape where middle powers—France, the UK, Turkey—are shaping the strategic environment.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.