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Abhijit Banerjee

1961 - Today

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global research center promoting the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abhijit Banerjee has received more than 2,943,980 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Abhijit Banerjee is the 243rd most popular economist (up from 294th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from India (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 243 out of 414. Before him are Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher, Roy Harrod, Mahbub ul Haq, Étienne Laspeyres, Arthur Melvin Okun, and Hernando de Soto Polar. After him are David Card, Leszek Balcerowicz, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, Georg Friedrich Knapp, Theodore Levitt, and Esther Duflo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 147. Before him are Kazuki Takahashi, Juan Carlos Osorio, Agneta Andersson, Timur Bekmambetov, Katherine Kelly Lang, and Joanne Whalley. After him are Eric Allin Cornell, Dragiša Binić, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Marc Levy, Alexander Bard, and Christian Ntsay.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 441 out of 1,861. Before him are Phoolan Devi (1963), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jayant Narlikar (1938), Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), and Jagjit Singh (1941). After him are Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Sanjeev Kumar (1938), Sucheta Kriplani (1908), Tanuja (1943), Jhalkaribai (1830), and Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832).

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Among ECONOMISTS In India

Among economists born in India, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 3. Before him are Amartya Sen (1933), and Mahbub ul Haq (1934). After him are Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Avinash Dixit (1944), Gita Gopinath (1971), Raghuram Rajan (1963), Bina Agarwal (1951), and Kshama Sawant (1973).

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