"The Great Indian Health-Care Mess: Problems and Ways Forward"

A talk by Abhijit Banerjee (MIT)

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2003 he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, along with Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan and remains one of the directors of the lab. Banerjee was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. His areas of research include development economics, theory of income distribution, information theory, and macroeconomics of developing countries. Banerjee is the author of Making Aid Work and Volatility and Growth (with Philippe Aghion), as well as a large number of articles and is the co-editor of a third book, Understanding Poverty. He finished his first documentary film, The name of the disease, in 2006. Banerjee is a past president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, and has been an International Research Fellow of the Kiel Institute, a Guggenheim Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow. He is currently a Research Associate of the NBER, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and member of the Council ofthe Econometric Society.

Co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Program for Economic Research

Reception to follow

Monday, October 26

4:00PM

Knox Hall, Room 208
606 W. 122nd Street (between Broadway and Claremont Avenue)
Morningside Campus