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Abhijit Banerjee, 44, Economist
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The Empiricist: Abhijit Banerjee, along with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, has won the Economics Nobel for 2019
Leprosy: The Failed Eradication
Leprosy continues to resist being wiped out in India because the battle against it was called a victory too soon
Scorched Life
Haima Deshpande visits the suicide-hit districts of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra to find lives maimed by debt, disease and poverty
Why Indian Politics Is Anti-Wealth
The pornography of poverty is the aesthetic of the desperate populist. And there is no place more rewarding than India for him. Pornography sells, and when poverty is marketed as wretchedness over which we have no control, it sells more
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