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November 2019 Newsletter - Nobel Edition

On October 14, J-PAL co-founders and Directors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, jointly with longtime J-PAL affiliated professor Michael Kremer, were awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” This special edition of our...

Government of Odisha partners with J-PAL South Asia to maximize the impact of anti-poverty programs

The Government of Odisha signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) South Asia to engage in a strategic evidence-based approach to policymaking.

Odisha to partner Nobel laureates’ J-PAL

The partnership with a prestigious research centre like J-PAL is being done under Odisha Government’s 5T Initiatives which look at transformative action.

If we’re serious about changing the world, we need a better kind of economics to do it

J-PAL co-founders and newly minted Nobel laureates, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, discuss how the pursuit of rapid growth won’t solve the huge challenges we face. A more honest, humane approach is the answer.

The Grand Experimenters

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and his team of economists started a quiet revolution to free people from poverty traps.

WHO: Nobel prize recognizes deworming’s contribution to improving children’s health and school performance and alleviating poverty

The recipients of this year’s Nobel prize – Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA), Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA) and Michael Kremer (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA) – were recognized for their decades of work...