I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have learnt an enormous amount from talking to people on the ground. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
If people don't want blue-collar work, our labour costs will remain high and our competitiveness low. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The world's poorest people use the cheapest available fuels - dung and twigs and even leaves. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
Mass protests often get books or films banned, but very few people take to the streets to challenge the right of the… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
We might think we are very different from Pakistan but we are not; we are the same people, with the same capacity… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I will confess that in general decisiveness worries me; it is often an excuse for being impatient with the details or insufficiently… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts.… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
The first time I went to the Planning Commission was when it was under KC Pant, a long time ago. Since then… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging,… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
The problem of getting from home to the metro, BRT or bus stop makes many people take their cars to work. Why not start… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
I was very lucky to be born into a very academic family. I was well-read, well-trained in mathematics. I had lots of advantages to… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
It is possible that Modi sees his life as evidence that hard physical work can triumph over every disadvantage, but if so, most of… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, the ultimate didi and dada of Indian politics, should really commiserate. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share
