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Howard White

Howard White is a senior evaluation officer of the Independent Evaluation Group at the World Bank.

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Abhijit Banerjee calls for an end to lazy thinking in the design of aid programs. What we need instead, he says, are randomized impact evaluationsof the sort promoted by his organization, MIT’s...
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