Abhijit Banerjee

Director/a, J-PAL

Director/a Científico/a, J-PAL Europa

Member, Executive Committee

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee fue educado en la University of Calcuta, Jawaharlal Nehru University y Harvard University, donde recibió su Ph.D. en 1988. En la actualidad es Profesor Ford Foundation Internacional de Economía en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology. En el año 2003, junto a Esther Duflo y Sendhil Mullainathan, fundó el Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), del cual sigue siendo uno de los directores. En el año 2009, J-PAL ganó el premio BBVA Foundation "Frontier of Knowledge", en la categoría cooperación para el desarrollo. Banerjee fue Presidente del Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, Investigador Asociado de NBER, Becario de Investigación de CEPR, Becario de Investigación Internacional del Kiel Institute, miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Sciencies y de la Econometric Society y ha sido Guggenheim Fellow y Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. El Profesor Banerjee también recibió el Premio Infosys 2009 en el área de las Ciencias Sociales y la Economía. Sus áreas de investigación son la economía del desarrollo y la teoría económica. Es autor de dos libros, así como de un gran número de artículos y es el editor de un tercer libro. Terminó su primer documental llamado “The Name of the Disease", el año 2006.

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How debit cards helped Indonesia’s poor get more food
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Show me the evidence
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Money Can End Corruption
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Every Problem Does Not Have a Solution
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Having Growth, Eating It Too
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Microcredit is Not the Enemy
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Given to J-PAL
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Big Trouble for Microfinance
A Different Dividend
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Failure of the Libertarian Approach to Reducing Poverty
The Microfinance Mess
Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference 2010
The Poverty Line - On a Different Track
Theory-Free Foreign Aid
Tank Up for Growth
Abhijit Banerjee: Rigour In Social Policy
The Pragmatic Rebels
Turning Your $25 Into Loans for Students in Developing Nations
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Moonshine or the Kids?
Newest in the Story of Developmental Economics
Handicapping Economics' "Baby Nobel", the Clark Medal
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Not Air-Conditioned
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The Role of Microfinance
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A Doctored Service
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New Prescription for Poverty
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Trials for the Poor: Rise of Randomized Trials to Study Antipoverty Programs
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We Need More Specialists to Make Schemes for Poor Work
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The Pretence of Knowledge
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BBVA Foundation Award in Development Cooperation
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