The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”

The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, researchers at MIT and Harvard respectively. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said they have “significantly improved our ability to fight global poverty. In two decades, their experiment-based approach has transformed development economics of development, which is now a flourishing field of research. “

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Links to web pages  :

• Pr. Abhijit Banerjee : https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/banerjee
• Pr. Esther Duflo : https://economics.mit.edu/faculty/eduflo
• Pr. Michael Kremer : https://scholar.harvard.edu/kremer/home

Contacts:

• Ilf Bencheikh (J-PAL Europe) : ibencheikh povertyactionlab.org