Opinion
Impact of Nobel laureates' work is felt by SA's youth & kids in our classrooms
Method tests what actually works in field
27 October 2019 - 00:00
Last week Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Michael Kremer (Harvard University) were jointly awarded the Nobel economics prize. According to the Nobel statement: "The research conducted by this year's laureates has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty... their new experiment-based approach has transformed development economics."..
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