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Coronavirus morning updates: Is China winning the hunt for vaccine race?

According to international media, four Chinese companies have begun testing their vaccine candidates on humans, more than the United States and Britain combined

Rahul Gandhi to discuss economy, coronavirus with Abhijit Banerjee today

The Congress party on Monday tweeted a 1:44-minute clip from the conversation which will be aired today

Direct benefit transfer need of the hour: Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo

Banerjee said that there was no need to immediate need to transfer all the money, but there should be assurance from the government about such transfer in future

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Duflo to aid Bengal awareness drive

Banerjee and Duflo will devise the campaign in coordination with the state government and local doctors.

Letters to BS: Power subsidy is not populism, they are to bridge inequality

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has argued in favour of putting money in the hands of those having Jan Dhan accounts.

Budget 2020: Time for govt to reintroduce wealth tax, says Abhijit Banerjee

India had passed the Wealth Tax Act, 1957 which was levied on an individual, a Hindu Undivided Family and a Corporate entity on its valuation, which was repealed in April 2016

Country could be passing through recession, says Abhijit Banerjee

The 58-year-old Indian-American economist said the banking and infrastructure sectors were in need of funding from the government

Banking sector under stress, govt can't bail it out, says Abhijit Banerjee

Banerjee also said that demand slowdown in the automobile sector also shows that people are lacking confidence in the economy.

The next big development challenge

The latest economic forecasts from the IMF and the World Bank are sobering, pointing to protracted slowdowns across the board

Authority an illusion, India needs better Opposition, says Abhijit Banerjee

He advocated that the people living in abysmal poverty should be encouraged by giving them assets and freebies.

Abhijit Banerjee lauds Delhi govt schools for 'outperforming' private peers

The comments from the MIT professor, whose work on poverty alleviation won him the coveted Nobel Prize recently, come weeks ahead of the Delhi polls

No need for further corporation tax cuts, says Abhijit Banerjee

I think you have to get the demand side going... you need to get money in the hands of people who will spend it now, people who need the money, says Abhijit Banerjee

Calcutta University to confer honorary D Litt on Abhijit Banerjee

"Everything will be decided according to the university statute.", the VC said on a question if WB Governor will attend the convocation

Bolstered by Nobel win, randomised trials are big in development economics

But it really gathered momentum in the 2000s, with researchers such as the Nobel awardees designing and implementing experiments to study a wide range of microeconomic questions

Dhoti chic

In popular culture, the bhadralok usually wears a dhoti

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo receive Nobel in ethnic wear, woo netizens

Abhijit wore a black bandhgala jacket paired with an off-white dhoti, and Esther wore a blue, two-toned saree, while Michael Kremer was spotted wearing a black suit

2019 Economics Nobel laureates to donate prize money to fund research

Duflo, who is married to Banerjee, and Kremer will also donate their Nobel prize money

US needs to raise taxes to fight poverty: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

"If you actually want to deal with poverty, happiness and anger in the US, the government will need to have more resources," Banerjee said in an interview in Stockholm on Saturday

'PM joked that media trying to trap me by saying anti-Modi things'

PM calls meeting with Abhijit Banerjee excellent, professor thanks Modi for unique experience

Delhi govt inks MoU with Abhijit Banerjee's centre J-Pal to monitor schemes

The project will be kicked off as a pilot, to study the beneficiary experience in ration shops under the Public Distribution System as well as in mohalla clinics