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To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.
Abhijit Banerjee
Saying
Man
Rights
Women
Insist
No-One
Support
Like
Himself
Without
Being
Interests
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
Abhijit Banerjee
Health
Women
People
Important
Protecting
Insurance
Quite
Low-Income
Useful
We might think we are very different from Pakistan but we are not; we are the same people, with the same capacity for warmth and passion and intolerance and violence.
Abhijit Banerjee
People
Passion
Think
Intolerance
Very
Same
Different
Might
Capacity
Warmth
Pakistan
Violence
It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.
Abhijit Banerjee
You
Poverty
Think
Other
Relative
I Think
Absolute
Could
Issue
End
Whole
I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.
Abhijit Banerjee
Me
People
I Am
Think
Silencing
More
Only
Opaque
Students
Days
Am
Lectures
Than
Who
Usual
The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.
Abhijit Banerjee
Politics
First
Group
Outsiders
Well-Meaning
Well-designed subsidies help the poor make the best of whatever opportunities they have; poorly designed ones either do very little or actually make things worse for them.
Abhijit Banerjee
Best
Opportunities
Whatever
Worse
Make
Very
Subsidies
Either
Little
Them
Poor
Poorly
Help
Actually
Things
Designed
In a world where audiences listen for attitudes rather than arguments or information, speakers must feel the pressure to posture rather than engage.
Abhijit Banerjee
World
Pressure
Argument
Must
Posture
Rather
Feel
Attitudes
Audiences
Than
Listen
Where
Information
Engage
Speakers
I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.
Abhijit Banerjee
Difficult
Wrap
Head
Policies
Around
Always
Population
Found
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