REPLUG | We don't ask real questions: Abhijit Banerjee

Economist Abhijit Banerjee has won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize along with two others. Here is an interview he gave Business Standard in January.

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.

Business Standard is republishing an interview Abhijit Banerjee gave us in January.

Behavioural economist professor Abhijit V Banerjee sees quota and loan waivers as something politicians use to bypass pressing economic questions and to escape the wrath of farmers. Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-founder of J-PAL, discusses a number of issues in a freewheeling chat with Anup Roy, including