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Abhijit Banerjee

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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali pronunciation: [oβid͡ʒit bænard͡ʒi]; born 21 February 1961) is an Indian 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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abhijit Banerjee is the 296th most popular economist (down from 243rd in 2019), the 627th most popular biography from India (down from 441st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 296 out of 414. Before him are Nassau William Senior, Max O. Lorenz, Bruno de Finetti, Petr Aven, Paul Sweezy, and Zbigniew Messner. After him are Gordon Tullock, Inger Andersen, Kenichi Ohmae, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Jesús Huerta de Soto, and Philippe Van Parijs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 240. Before him are Shane Black, Fiona Graham, João Pinto, Fatou Bensouda, Corey Johnson, and Masaaki Mori. After him are Matjaž Kek, Wynton Marsalis, Aaron Sorkin, Masamune Shirow, José Luis Cuciuffo, and Sion Sono.

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In India

Among people born in India, Abhijit Banerjee ranks 627 out of 1,861. Before him are Basawan (1560), P. Bhanumathi (1925), Meira Kumar (1945), Bhagwan Das (1869), Mohammad Hamid Ansari (1937), and Bhalchandra Nemade (1938). After him are Johnny Walker (1926), Mary Boyce (1920), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Saif Ali Khan (1970), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), and Madhuri Dixit (1967).

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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), Kshama Sawant (1973), Bina Agarwal (1951), Raghuram Rajan (1963), and Gita Gopinath (1971).

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