Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty

This quick TED talk entry is courtesy of TED.com. Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid’s impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it’s possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt — by testing solutions with randomized trials.

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