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WELCOME TO A UNIQUE OPEN SEMINAR BEYOND POOR ECONOMICS WITH ABHIJIT BANERJEE AND ESTHER DUFLO Registration for the event: Please register your attendance to [email protected] by June 8 at the latest. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo will build their lecture on the book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty which was rewarded the Financial Times and Gold- man Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and has been translated into more than 17 languages. In this lecture they will go further beyond what is in the book. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are professors at the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They are both highly influ- ential people within the academic field but also for policy and development agencies. Abhijit Banerjee’s areas of research are development economics and economic theory He has been a member of the UN Secre- tary-General Ban Ki-moon’s High-level Panel to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015. Esther Duflo’s research seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. Duflo has received numerous acade- mic honors and prizes. WHEN Monday June 11 at 13.00–14.30 PLACE Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65

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Page 1: WELCOME TO A UNIQUE OPEN SEMINAR BEYOND POOR ECONOMICS · lecture on the book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty which was rewarded the Financial

WELCOME TO A UNIQUE OPEN SEMINAR

BEYOND POOR ECONOMICS WITH ABHIJIT BANERJEE AND ESTHER DUFLO

Registration for the event: Please register your attendance to [email protected] by June 8 at the latest.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo will build their lecture on the book Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty which was rewarded the Financial Times and Gold-man Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and has been translated into more than 17 languages. In this lecture they will go further beyond what is in the book.

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo are professors at the Department of Economics at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology. They are both highly influ-ential people within the academic field but also for policy and develop ment agencies.

Abhijit Banerjee’s areas of research are development economics and economic theory He has been a member of the UN Secre-tary-General Ban Ki-moon’s High-level Panel to advise on the global development framework beyond 2015.

Esther Duflo’s research seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. Duflo has

received numerous acade-mic honors and prizes.

WHEN

Monday June 11 at 13.00–14.30

PLACE

Stockholm School of Economics, Sveavägen 65