Abhijit Banerjee : (5)

" We are specialists who have something special to say. We have had no problem with working in any state interested in evaluating their policies. " - Abhijit Banerjee

" Catastrophic health shocks do enormous damage to families both economically and otherwise, and are easy to insure, because nobody gets them on purpose. On the other hand, insurance policies that only treat certain catastrophic illnesses are hard to comprehend, especially of you are illiterate and unused to the legalistic nature of exclusions etc. " - Abhijit Banerjee

" We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let’s first fix the politics, then we’ll fix the rest. " - Abhijit Banerjee

" Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they’re based on a detailed und­er­standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground. " - Abhijit Banerjee

" My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch. " - Abhijit Banerjee