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Are Nobel Laureates Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo leaving US for Switzerland?

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will establish a development economics center at UZH amid concerns over academic freedom in the US.
Updated on Oct 11, 2025 09:07 pm IST

Review: Poor Economics for Kids by Esther Duflo, illustrated by Cheyenne Olivier

Girls playing hockey in Hesal village, Jharkhand. (Diwakar Prasad/ Hindustan Times)
Published on Nov 16, 2024 07:14 am IST

Interview: Poor Economics for Kids by Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Olivier

Children playing in a waterlogged street. (Vijayanand Gupta/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jul 14, 2024 11:02 am IST

Tamil Nadu economic council to include Raghuram Rajan, Esther Duflo as members

Banwarilal Purohit further explained that based on the recommendations of this council, the government will revitalise the state's economy and ensure that the benefits of economic growth reach all segments of society.
Updated on Jun 21, 2021 02:42 pm IST

From Abhijit Banerjee to Rabindranath Tagore, complete list of Indian, Indian-origin Nobel laureates

Abhijit Banerjee is the latest Indian to win the Nobel Prize.
Updated on Dec 11, 2019 02:44 pm IST

Dressed in dhoti and sari, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo receive Economics Nobel

Indian-American economist Abhijit Banerjee shakes hands with Sweden's King Carl Gustaf as he receives the Economic Nobel at a ceremony in Stockholm, on December 10.
Updated on Aug 06, 2020 08:51 pm IST

Reforming India’s broken criminal justice system | Opinion

India cannot become a superpower on the back of an antiquated criminal justice system
Updated on Nov 12, 2019 06:16 pm IST

What the Nobel Prize really means for India

The three prize winners’ method of research is popularly known as the Randomised Control Trial (RCT) approach. It is similar to the method used to test drugs
Published on Oct 19, 2019 07:14 pm IST

The inside account of Abhijit Banerjee’s Nyay connection

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, two of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, October 14, 2019
Updated on Oct 16, 2019 06:09 pm IST

Abhijit Banerjee’s achievement much bigger: Sourav Ganguly

BCCI President-designate Sourav Ganguly
Updated on Oct 16, 2019 09:19 am IST

Making sense of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said this year’s winners of Nobel Prize in Economics had introduced a new approach to obtaining reliable answers about the best ways to fight global poverty.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:49 am IST

Economics Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Bihar connection

Esther Duflo, left, and Abhijit Banerjee, the winners of 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics, following a news conference at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Oct. 14, 2019.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 10:33 am IST

In Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, a vision to fight inequality

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo lay out their upcoming book Good Economics for Hard Times.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 01:58 pm IST

Nobel economics prize winner thought message was scam at first

Michael Kremer was worried the Skype message was a scam.
Updated on Jul 11, 2020 12:50 am IST

‘Going into a tailspin’: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Indian economy

Abhijit Banerjee, one of the three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, waits to speak at a news conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., October 14, 2019
Updated on Jul 28, 2020 09:29 pm IST

Abhijit Banerjee explains why he promptly went back to sleep after Nobel winning call

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his French-American wife Esther Duflo. Both of them are joint winners for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics along with Michael Kremer.
Updated on Oct 15, 2019 09:09 am IST

‘I had a hunch he would win the Nobel’, says Abhijit Banerjee’s mother

Abhijit Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo during a news conference with at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday after they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics along with Harvard's Michael Kremer.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 11:03 pm IST

Very, very happy on Abhijit Banerjee winning Economics Nobel, says Amartya Sen

While talking about winners of Nobel Prize 2019, Amartya Sen, said I think that the prize has been given to the most competent persons.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 09:19 pm IST

How Nobel winner Abhijit Banerjee changed millions of lives

Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer bagged the award for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 09:20 pm IST

Proud day for JNU as alumnus Abhijit Banerjee wins Nobel Economics Prize 2019

In this Jan 4, 2010 file photo Abhijit Banerjee receives the Infosys Prize 2009 in Social Science (Economics Category) during a ceremony in New Delhi.
Published on Oct 14, 2019 08:02 pm IST

A Nobel prize that gives us hope | HT Editorial

Banerjee and Duflo have set up what they call a poverty action lab at MIT to develop these insights
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 07:33 pm IST

Rahul, Kejriwal congratulate Banerjee, laud work which helped lakhs of Delhi kids

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer bagged the award for “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 07:23 pm IST

Mamata Banerjee congratulates Abhijit Banerjee for winning Nobel prize in economics

Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee wins the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics.
Updated on Oct 14, 2019 05:52 pm IST

Nobel Prize 2019 winner Abhijit Banerjee - Five things to know

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Director, J-PAL during an interview with Hindustan Times at Green Park in New Delhi.
Updated on Jul 10, 2020 05:57 pm IST

Indian-origin Abhijit Banerjee, wife Esther Duflo awarded Nobel Prize in Economics

Dr Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International economist, MIT during the second session of Hindustan Times Summit at Taj Palace on New Delhi.
Updated on Jul 10, 2020 05:51 pm IST