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Nicholas Stern

Sir Nicholas Stern is the head of the U.K. Government Economic Service and the former chief economist of the World Bank.

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The scientific case on climate change now seems overwhelming: we face an enormous problem and tremendous costs for inaction. The latest science also gives us insight into the magnitude of damage we...
Nicholas Stern
As Abhijit Banerjee explains, randomized experiments solve a major problem: how to cleanly identify the effects of a given development program or project. They can thereby make interventions more cost effective and...
Nicholas Stern, F. Halsey Rogers, Ian Goldin

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