Aryan Thapa and Aman Dobryal, students of the Vivekanand School in Dehradun, have been receiving the Kabir Memorial Scholarship, set up by Banerjee in remembrance of his son who died an untimely death, for the past three years. read more

The chief minister, had a slip of tongue while speaking to newsmen after a cabinet meeting wherein she kept referring Abhijit Banerjee , the Nobel Prize winner in economics as ‘Abhishek Babu’. read more

The President of the Royal Society, issued his latest warning as the organisation released a new analysis on Wednesday concluding that the UK is now a less attractive destination for top international science talent with fewer scientists coming through... read more

Banerjee, who is a teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Monday became the eighth Indian to get the award and was jointly chosen the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize winner along with Esther Duflo. read more

“For decades the economics department at Presidency was outstanding, unlike anything that existed anywhere in India,” says Anjan Mukherji, a former professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). read more

Economics is considered to be a part of social sciences, where theories and concepts cannot be tested for validity, unlike physical sciences. Banerjee and his co-awardees being given the Prize changes that in a way, as their work has argued that it is... read more

Nobel Prize in economics winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo say they’re just like any other married couple trying to juggle kids and work. read more

The Nobel laureate cites declining household consumption data to warn that the Indian economy is doing ‘very badly’ and is going ‘into a tailspin’ read more

Banerjee, his French-American wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer bagged the award for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. read more

Abhijit Banerjee has written highly-influential empirical papers that study the impacts of specific policies to improve development outcomes including education, health, and reduction in poverty. read more

Amartya Sen had won the same award in 1998 for his contribution to welfare economics. read more

Taking to Twitter, PM Modi tweeted: “Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee on being conferred the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He has made notable contributions in the field of poverty alleviation.” read more

In India, Banerjee’s groundbreaking work on education in low-income countries has changed the lives of lakhs of children studying in Delhi government schools. Soon after the prize was announced, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was among the first... read more

Indian-American Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” read more

To know what works and what doesn’t to end global poverty read more