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Abhijit Banerjee

1961 - Today

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (pronounced [obʱidʒit bɛnardʒi]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born naturalized 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. In 2019, Banerjee shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." He and Esther Duflo are married, and became the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel or Nobel Memorial Prize.In addition to his academic appointments, Banerjee is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abhijit Banerjee has received more than 2,749,796 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Abhijit Banerjee is the 297th most popular economist (down from 239th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from India (down from 382nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 297 out of 315Before him are José Luis Sampedro, Robert Rubin, Bernard Lietaer, Paul A. Baran, Charles P. Kindleberger, and James Steuart. After him are Michel Chossudovsky, Leonid Abalkin, Walter Block, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, José Ángel Gurría, and Henry Charles Carey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 219Before him are Kati Outinen, James Worthy, Darryl Jones, Marc-André Hamelin, Jonathan Coe, and Matjaž Kek. After him are Larry Mullen Jr., Liu Gang, Greg Egan, Anna Oxa, Darren Star, and John Stockwell.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 546 out of 1,493Before him are N. T. Rama Rao (1923), Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923), Basawan (1560), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), and Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897). After him are K. D. Jadhav (1926), Mohammad Ali Jauhar (1878), Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (1924), Launceston Elliot (1874), Shrilal Shukla (1925), and Devika Rani (1908).

Among ECONOMISTS In India

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