Esther duflo: Is a development economist who studies

Esther Duflo is a development economist who studies the economic lives of people living in poverty and designs social policies. She is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor at MIT, co-founder of J-PAL, and co-author of Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times. The last thirty years present an astonishing paradox : while the world's richest have seen their fortunes multiply and their share of global income distribution become ever more overwhelming, the world's poorest have also enjoyed a period of remarkable progress. The number of people living in extreme poverty has been halved ; infant and maternal mortality have also been halved ; almost all the world's children now go to school ; diseases such as malaria and HIV-AIDS are much better ... Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Reduction and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is also co-founder and co-director of J-PAL, an anti-poverty action laboratory. In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with a view to helping design and evaluate social policies and programs. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, the environment and ... Evidence from a randomized evaluation. Inequality and growth: What can the data say? Powerful women: does exposure reduce bias?