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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

Keshav Padmanabhan -
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

Enda Curran -
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

Kairvy Grewal -
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

Abhijit Banerjee -
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

Mark Whitehouse -
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

Noah Smith -
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

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

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Opinion

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Stela Dey -
Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Everyone’s ‘damaged’ in modern dating. Love will soon be called a mental illness

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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