She didn’t realize it until she was getting her undergraduate degree, but Esther Duflo’s path began to take shape from a very early age. Her mother, a pediatrician, worked with organizations helping ...

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and ...

Times are changing: In 2019, Duflo became only the second female Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. She is also the youngest economist ever awarded the prize. "Me and my siblings were all aware of ...

On Monday, Abhijit Banerjee, 58, and Esther Duflo, 46, won the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with economist Michael Kremer, for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".

Esther Duflo has just become the youngest recipient for the Nobel Prize in Economics: but certain publications are refusing to acknowledge her record-breaking achievement. When Esther Duflo won ...

Esther Duflo has said she is "humbled" by her success in winning this year's Nobel prize for economics and hopes it will "inspire many, many other women". Prof Duflo was part of a trio ...

Kozhikode set to host literary gathering with an illustrious lineup of speakers including Naseeruddin Shah, Paul Lynch, and ...

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The core of Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s new book, Poor Economics, can be summed up by a single sentence in the foreword: “[W]e have to abandon the habit of reducing the poor to cartoon ...