Nirmala Banerjee being interviewed at her home in Kolkata. Photo: AP
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Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize and Indian media can’t get enough of his mum
- The poverty researcher has just jointly won one of the world’s most respected awards – therefore his mum is at the centre of media attention
- As curious as it sounds, the phenomenon is not strange in India, where patriarchy is deeply rooted and the mother-son relationship is idealised above all others
Nirmala Banerjee being interviewed at her home in Kolkata. Photo: AP
The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’. Photo: AFP
American trio win Nobel Economics Prize for work on poverty
- Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer honoured ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’
- Duflo is the second woman to win the economics prize
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’. Photo: AFP