Poverty Action ~ Interview with MIT's Esther Duflo

Co-director of MIT's Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Professor Esther Duflo, answers questions from IHT readers from around the world in this Managing Globalization column. J-PAL's approach to development and poverty research is based on randomized trials to improve the effectiveness of poverty programs by providing clear scientific results that help shape successful policies to better tackle poverty.