He's an Indian-American professor at MIT and now among the three laureates awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics 2019. But before working on alleviating global poverty, as a student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he spent 10 days in Tihar jail. This is the story of Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. 🏆👓 | Brut India

Watch 2019 economic sciences laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo talk about the importance of experiencing life in developing countries – not only the challenges, but also the beauty. Their innovative research, based on field experiments, has developed new approaches to alleviating global poverty. #EndPoverty | Nobel Prize