Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at MIT and a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, is author of Making Aid Work.
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Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at MIT and a director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, is author of Making Aid Work.
Aid can help to address global poverty. But we need field experiments—randomized controlled trials—to tell us which programs work.
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