“I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population pol...” — Abhijit Banerjee Quote

I have always found it difficult to wrap my head around population policies.

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

Policy change is nothing if it's not patient work.

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.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.