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Jan 8, 2013 10 min

Putting the Poor Front and Center

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Policies designed to pull the poor out of poverty can end up being, at worst, ineffective, at best, actively harmful. Developmental economist, Esther Duflo believes that just as one would test a new drug, social policy ideas should be subject to randomized control trials.

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