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Robert H. Bates

Robert H. Bates is the Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University. His most recent book is Prosperity and Violence. He was a 2001 Carnegie Scholar.

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In1997 the Africa Economic Research Consortium—a network of professional economists, headquartered in Nairobi, but ramifying throughout Africa—launched a study of the continent’s economic performance in the post-independence period. In 2007, it published...
Robert H. Bates
By advocating the use of randomized trials to evaluate development aid, Abhijit Banerjee seeks to repel criticisms from two camps: those who are skeptical of the way aid is spent and those...
Robert H. Bates

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