Let me quote that very sentence for you: “At least we can stop pretending that there is some solution at hand and instead join hands with millions of well-intentioned people across the world – elected officials and bureaucrats, teachers and NGO workers, academics and entrepreneurs – in the quest for the many ideas, big and small, that will eventually take us to that world where no one has to live on 99 cents per day”.
15. Now let’s turn to our guest speaker himself. Ladies and gentlemen, we are honoured to have with us, Dr. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His teaching and research have won him accolades the world over and he stands as a giant in his profession.