New chapter awaits for Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo. (Photo: NDTV). Show Quick Read Summary is AI Generated. Newsroom Reviewed

Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are set to leave the United States and join the University of Zurich, where they will set up a new centre for development economics, the university confirmed on Friday.

The duo, who are married, had won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize alongside Michael Kremer for their "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty, currently work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

But amid funding cuts orchestrated by US President Donald Trump on universities and academies across the country, both Abhijit and Esther will move to Switzerland, joining the University of Zurich's Economic

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