Abhijit V. Banerjee
Development economist
Abhijit V. Banerjee is an Indian American economist who shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for research on fighting global poverty.
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American Born 1961 in Mumbai, India
About Abhijit V. Banerjee
Abhijit V. Banerjee is an Indian American economist. He co-founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research center based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that encourages the use of scientific evidence in designing ways to reduce poverty. The 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to him, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. He is married to Duflo. He received a Sloan Research Fellowship in 1994, and he was also the first winner of the Infosys Prize in Social Sciences (Economics). His book in our catalog is Good Economics for Hard Times.