Nobel Prize in front of diploma

Nobel Prize for Poverty

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 11, 2019

Esther Duflo, recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, professor of poverty alleviation and development economics at MIT, and co-author of Good Economics for Hard Times (PublicAffairs, 2019), discusses the work which led to her recent Nobel Prize award in economics.

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