Poor Economics: Rethinking anti-poverty policy
Esther Duflo, the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and author of Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, explains how randomized trials of strategies used to address poverty yield proven outcomes that sometimes contradict policy and popular thinking. She spoke at Holy Cross on October 27, 2011.