Professor Abhijit Banerjee who won the Nobel Prize with wife and fellow economist Esther Duflo in the field of economic sciences, speaks exclusively to India Today TV's Rajdeep Sardesai about the upcoming Union Budget 2021, the Oxfam report and the economic implications of coronavirus-induced lockdown in India.

The latest report by Oxfam highlighted how the Covid-19 pandemic has widened the income gap between the richest and poorest people. The income gap between the poor and rich has not only increased in India but in all countries around the world.

Watch the exclusive conversation here.