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Growth, income, poverty and the Nobel

There is good reason for caution in applying the results of randomised control trials across space and time

Growth, income, poverty and the Nobel
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in economics has been jointly awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, for “their experimental work, involving controlled randomised trials.... (which) has considerably improved
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First Published: Oct 25 2019 | 1:46 AM IST

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