Abhijit Banerjee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Abhijit Banerjee

one of the most presicious economist

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1961

Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Profession: economist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Abhijit Banerjee

  • Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: ?????? ??????? ???????????????, pronounced [ob?id?it ban?rd?i]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
  • Along with Esther Duflo, they are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.Banerjee is a co-founder of Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan).
  • He is a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty.
  • Banerjee was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Econometric Society.
  • He also has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P.
  • Sloan Fellow.
  • He is the co-author of Poor Economics.
  • He also serves on the academic advisory board of Plaksha University, an upcoming science and technology university in India.
  • His new book, co-authored with Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, was released in October 2019 in India by Juggernaut Books.

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