Articles by Abhijit Banerjee
Parental guidance
The Right to Food campaign aims to alleviate child malnutrition. But to make it work, parents should make feeding children healthy food a priority, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on May 04, 2010 11:22 PM IST
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Lower the barriers
I learnt from reading the Indian press recently that the Upper House of the Parliament had passed a Bill reserving 33 per cent of the seats in Parliament for what the press described as the ‘fair sex’, or more evenhandedly, the ‘fairer sex’, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on Mar 28, 2010 11:22 PM IST
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Not air-conditioned
The poor are the most ignorant about climate change and are the worst affected by it. We need to seriously include them in any solution package, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on Feb 12, 2010 11:22 PM IST
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The game changer
Microcredit can improve millions of lives. But the Indian regulators must not interfere too much, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on Nov 24, 2009 09:56 PM IST
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The true potential of UID
Technology is just an enabler. Making the unique identity card project effective will require changing the rules whenever needed, report Abhijit Banerjee & Sriram Raghavan.

Updated on Nov 10, 2009 10:50 PM IST
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Abhijit Banerjee, Sriram Raghavan
Why poor need Unique ID
Government programmes are open to misuse by people who run them. The unique identity card project can fix the problem if it is backed by political will, report Abhijit Banerjee and Sriram Raghavan.

Updated on Nov 09, 2009 10:56 PM IST
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Abhijit Banerjee and Sriram Raghavan
Idle worshippers
Here’s the paradox of West Bengal: it boasts a great pool of talent and energy, but thanks to politics and a strange lethargy, nothing happens, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on Oct 14, 2009 09:54 PM IST
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A doctored service
The healthcare systems of the US and India are different. There is, however, one trait common to the two democracies: inequality. Abhijit Banerjee writes.

Updated on Sep 24, 2009 10:32 PM IST
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A job half done
One idea is that the NREGA work days would be assigned to, say, the irrigation or surface transport or agriculture ministries, so that in order to complete their projects, they would need to use NREGA labour. This would create a stake in getting work out of people, writes Abhijit Banerjee.

Updated on Aug 13, 2009 11:12 PM IST
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