We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people. — 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. You have to just give them money. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Celebrate the excitement of trying build something new and wonderful. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women. — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
