Abhijit Banerjee

You have to take it seriously that the economy is in crisis.

The investment climate in Gujarat under Modi has been very supportive of business interests; but it was the same under the Congress governments that came before him.

If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.

We've learned a huge amount from organisations like Seva Mandir and Pratham, for example. In my personal experience, these organisations work on a very large scale with very poor people.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

It is undeniable that the looming environmental crisis is partly the consequence of population growth.