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  Lockdown has impeded basic learning: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

  India | February 10, 2022 7:45 IST

  Nobel laureate also underscored the need to curtail curriculum once the classes resume at the junior level and help children make up for the lost time.

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  TMC will form govt in Goa within 3 months: Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee

  India | October 31, 2021 22:02 IST

  "We have started our organisational activities in Goa," Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee said in a rally held finally after repeated postponements as the Tripura Police withheld permissions due to Covid-19 pandemic.

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  Covid 3rd wave may pull GDP growth down to 7%: Economist Abhijit Banerjee

  Business | August 06, 2021 6:43 IST

  Abhijit Banerjee said that boosting the state's economy is directly related to the revival of the country's economy as it is under stress due to the ongoing pandemic situation.

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  Centre should focus on free spending policies than balancing budget: Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

  India | August 05, 2021 18:09 IST

  Banerjee, who heads West Bengal's Global Advisory Board (GAB) and advises the state government on issues related to the pandemic, said that boosting the state’s economy is directly related to the revival of the country's economy as it is under stress due to the ongoing pandemic situation.

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  Economist Abhijit Banerjee supports giving money to Durga puja committees by Bengal govt

  India | October 21, 2020 8:09 IST

  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced on September 24 the ₹ 50,000 grant for each of the 36,946 community Durga Puja committees in the state in COVID-19 time.

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  'Don't think so': Abhijit Banerjee says wouldn't have won Nobel Prize living in India

  India | January 27, 2020 8:55 IST

  Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee feels that he wouldn't have won the nobel prize if he was living in India. The 58-year-old India-born American economist was speaking at a session at Jaipur Literature Festival when he was asked if he could have won the Nobel based in India.

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  Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on why there shouldn't be anymore cuts in corporate tax & more

  Business | January 04, 2020 14:02 IST

  Talking about the economic slowdown in India, Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee said that it was important that there were no more cuts in corporate taxes.

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  Video: Abhijit Banerjee dons dhoti, receives Nobel Prize 2019 with wife in Sweden

  India | December 11, 2019 10:50 IST

  Indian-American economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo and colleague Michael Kremer, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics earlier in October, received their awards at Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on Tuesday.

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  Mohun Bagan confers life membership to Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

  Football | October 23, 2019 20:00 IST

  I-League side Mohun Bagan conferred their life membership to Nobel laureate Abhijit Mukherjee at his residence.

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  PM joked media trying to trap me to say....: Abhijit Banerjee

  India | October 22, 2019 17:52 IST

  Addressing the media, Banerjee said, "PM Modi started by cracking a joke on how the media is trying to trap me to say anti-Modi things. He has been watching the TV and he's been watching you guys. And he knows what you're trying to do."

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  Abhijit Banerjee, Amartya Sen's faces to figure on Presidency's wall

  India | October 17, 2019 20:51 IST

  In a rare honour, the Presidency University on Thursday decided to emboss facsimiles of the faces of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Amartya Sen - the two Nobel laureates in its list of distinguished alumni - on its wall.  

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  Govt didn't feel guilty about Abhijit's remarks, says Chidambaram

  India | October 16, 2019 18:20 IST

  Stepping up his attack on the Centre, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said no one in the government seems to have felt "a pang of guilt" over Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Benerjee's remarks that the Indian economy is "doing very badly".

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  Sourav Ganguly congratulates Abhijit Banerjee for winning Nobel prize

  Other Sports | October 16, 2019 9:25 IST

  Sourav Ganguly, who is set to take over as president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India, said Abhijit Banerjee's feat was a much bigger achievement.

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  Abhijit Banerjee's achievement much bigger: Ganguly on Nobel Prize

  India | October 15, 2019 22:28 IST

  The Indian Cricket Board president-elect Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said the achievement of Nobel prize winner and fellow Bangali Abhijit Banerjee was much bigger than his.  

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  Indian economy in 'tailspin' warns Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

  Business | October 15, 2019 14:39 IST

  When "the economy going into a tailspin is the time when you don't worry so much about monetary stability and you worry a little more about demand, the demand is a huge problem right now in the economy," he said at a news conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge on Monday after his prize was announced.

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  7 Things To Know About Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee

  India | October 14, 2019 23:58 IST

  ​Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics along with two others. He will share the award with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their work which has "dramatically improved our ability to fight poverty in practice." Here are 7 things to know about Abhijit Banerjee.

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  Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee has won these awards before

  World | October 14, 2019 19:27 IST

  Abhijit Banerjee, the Indian-American economist has been awarded Nobel prize for economics. Along with Abhijit Banerjee the Nobel has been awarded to Esther Duflo and Micheal Kremer.

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  EXPLAINED: How Abhijit Banerjee-Esther Duflo won Nobel Economics Prize

  Fyi | October 14, 2019 17:59 IST

  The Nobel Economics Prize 2019 has been awarded to husband-wife duo Abhijit Banerjee-Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. The prize is given for creating an experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. They share the prestigious award with American development economist Michael Kremer. Let us know their journey behind winning Nobel Prize in Economics 2019.

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  Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, 2 others get Nobel economics prize

  World | October 14, 2019 17:59 IST

  The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”