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Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin is the vice president for external affairs and United Nations affairs at the World Bank.

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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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