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Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at MIT and a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, is author of Making Aid Work.

Articles

Toward a new development economics.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

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Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need field experiments—randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

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It is slightly terrifying to get responses from such a distinguished group, so I was rather gratified to see such broad agreement on the idea of lazy thinking. A notable exception was...
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