He's an Indian-American professor at MIT and now among the three laureates awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics 2019. But before working on alleviating global poverty, as a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he spent 10 days in Tihar jail. This is the story of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee.
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01:00Thank you very much.
01:30His master's program in JNU is something which I'm sure contributed to his
01:39overall kind of intellectual framing, makeup, etc. and at least in some small
01:48measure contributed towards some of the basic intellectual concerns which he has
01:57sort of pursued subsequently.
02:57This year's prize in the economic sciences is about alleviating global
03:20poverty. How to reduce global poverty is a fundamental but also daunting
03:26question. This year's laureates have shown that it's best to break down this
03:31daunting issue to smaller, more precise questions. Questions you can credibly
03:37answer. They have examined the impact of interventions in various important
03:43areas such as education, health, agriculture and access to credit.
03:50I'm very happy. That's it. I'm going to tell him off for not giving me a hint before.
04:00It's wonderful to get this prize. It's particularly wonderful I think because
04:11it's a prize not I think for us but also for the entire movement. We're excited
04:17about what we're doing now and it's fun. We're learning new things. I'm really
04:22excited to look at the results from our latest intervention.
04:47you