Aid’s deep unpopularity stems from the fact that people think it is a larger part of the budget than it really is — polls show Americans believe foreign aid is 25 per cent of the federal budget, when ...

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation ...

NEW DELHI: While young women around the world are stepping into jobs, shaping their futures, and embracing independence, most ...

BENGALURU: In a world where perfectly staged food photos dominate social media feeds, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and ...

Abhijit Banerjee is the kind of economist who refuses to glorify his profession, even though he’s partially responsible for a massive shift in how economists approach and use data, has published ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writers are professors at MIT and winners of the Nobel Prize in economics On Wednesday last week, the ...

Abhijit Banerjee is an artist. How much does an Abhijit Banerjee cost? The artist's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Among the artist's sold works is "Loard Ganesha and Pujarini", ...

Economist Abhijit Banerjee on why he reads and writes cookbooks, his new book at the intersection of food and economics, democratizing the social sciences, and presenting new Indian flavour ideas ...