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TopicEsther Duflo

Topic: Esther Duflo

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.

Davos 2020 will debate how to deal with ‘Peak Decade’, from globalisation to central banks

Politicians, investors & executives in Davos will debate whether we are witnessing peaks in key drivers of the world economy.

Duflo & Banerjee say NRC-CAA ‘risky’, Naushad Forbes tells industry, speak truth to power

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Why this MIT student’s paper on Indian liberalisation threatened trade economists

In Good Economics for Hard Times, Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee write about the link between liberalisation and inequality in India.

Abhijit Banerjee’s advice to Trump: Stop treating the poor like losers

Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo have some advice for global leaders to end deep disillusionment with politics as usual throughout the developed world.

Why it makes sense for economists like Abhijit Banerjee to focus on small changes

Growth doesn’t imply every development economist should spend their careers in pursuit of big transformational growth policies that may not even exist.

Esther Duflo, second woman to win Economics Nobel, says profession must respect women more

Esther Duflo shared the Nobel for Economics with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer for their "experimental approach" to fighting global poverty.

On Camera

Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.