Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee revisits the central ideas of his seminal work Poor Economics, co-authored with Esther Duflo, fifteen years after its publication. In this talk, Professor Banerjee reflects on what we’ve learned about poverty alleviation from a decade and a half of field experiments, policy interventions, and global upheavals. From the evolution of evidence-based development policy to the impact of new crises such as COVID-19 and climate change, this session will provide a thought-provoking look at the shifting landscape of poverty research—and what the future may hold.
Speakers
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT; Co‑Founder & Director, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J‑PAL); Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences (2019)
In conversation with
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Tishani Doshi, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing, NYUAD
