Evaluating Development Interventions: Esther Duflo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvrGiPkVcs
<p>Esther Duflo shares her insights as MIT economist and director of the Poverty Action Lab, where she and colleagues have developed randomized evaluations to answer critical questions relating to poverty alleviation. Mentioned in the previous post on teaching resources and evaluating development interventions. </p>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvrGiPkVcs Esther Duflo shares her insights as MIT economist and director of the Poverty Action Lab, where she and colleagues have developed randomized evaluations to answer critical questions relating to poverty alleviation. Duflo was mentioned in today's post on teaching resources and the policy prescriptions implicit in Kony 2012.