To delve on the topic of this year’s Nobel Prize, a symposium has been organized at PES University. The 2019 Nobel Prize itself has specially been gratifying. One of the winners was born in India. Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT and Michael Kremer of Harvard won the coveted prize for their distinctive contribution in the use of experimental methods to learn about the effectiveness of small-scale policy interventions aimed at helping improve the lives of some of the world’s poorest citizens. The Economist commends them on the countless hours they have spent observing and learning from the daily struggles of the world’s poor.The Nobel prize appropriately recognizes both the winners’ use of a powerful research technique and their application of that technique to some of the world’s most pressing policy problems.

Symposium Directors:

Dr. Biplab Sarkar: 9035446729, biplabsarkar@pes.edu

Dr. Siva Shanmugam: 8050704027, sivashanmugam@pes.edu