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Esther Duflo is only the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. She is also the youngest person ever to win it. This week, the Swedish Academy announced that Dulfo along with her ...

Abhijit V. Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation ...

in the first week of January, most of America's best-known economists were in San Diego, thronging the American Economic Association's annual meeting at the Manchester Grand Hyatt resort. But one of ...

The poor seem to be trapped by the same kind of problems that afflict the rest of us—lack of information, weak beliefs and procrastination among them. It is true that we who are not poor are somewhat ...

Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, who are among the top development economists worldwide, will join the University of Zurich's (UZH) Faculty of Business, Economics, and Informatics in July 2026. At ...

NEW DELHI: Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee who has shared a nobel prize in economics with his wife Esther Duflo, was also her PhD supervisor at US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

When it comes to motivating young women, lead by example. A recent study co-authored by MIT economist Esther Duflo, underscores just how important female leaders are for the attitudes and ambitions of ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Esther Duflo won a Nobel Prize this year for her work in poor countries. Now, the French-American economist ...