French-American economist Esther Duflo, who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kraemer, was in Kozhikode recently to speak at the Kerala Literature Festival. Her latest book, Poor Economics for Kids (Juggernaut), illustrated by French illustrator Cheyenne Olivier, revolves around the lives of children and adults living in a village that “could be in India or Kenya or Vietnam or elsewhere”, and is based on the research presented in Poor Economics: Rethinking Poverty and the Ways to End It (2011), which Duflo co-wrote for adults with Banerjee (who is also her husband). In an interview with

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