 "Nirmala Banerjee, mother of Indian-American economist Abhijit Binayak Banerjee, interacts with media while holding a photograph of her son. Photo: PTI")
Poverty being the biggest problem in the world, it wasn’t unnatural for her son to focus his attention towards it and come up with solution to eliminate it; so feels Nirmala Banerjee, the mother of Indian origin economist and Nobel laureate, Abhijit Banerjee.
“He has been abroad for most of the time and I don’t know at what point of time he decided that he is going to focus on poverty. He likes to work with ground level data; and poverty being the biggest problem in the world, it isn’t unnatural for Abhijit to work it out in this field
