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Esther Duflo, FBA ( French: [dyflo]; born 25 October 1972) is a French-American economist [ 1] currently serving as the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [ 2] In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside ...
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (2011) is a non-fiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee [ 1] and Esther Duflo, [ 2] both professors of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureates. The book reports on the effectiveness of solutions to global ...
More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty is a non-fiction book by Yale economist Dean Karlan and economist Jacob Appel published in 2011. It combines insights from behavioral economics with field research from developing countries to discuss and evaluate international development and poverty -alleviation ...
The Fordham Francis Index (Full Name: Fordham University 's Pope Francis Global Poverty Index) is a multidimensional measure of international poverty. It is a simple tool that relies on seven primary indicators which are categorized into a Material Well-being Index and a Spiritual Well-being Index. It was launched on September 23, 2016 [1] at a ...
978-1-61039-950-0 (US) Website. goodeconomicsforhardtimes .com. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Juggernaut Books (India), and Allen Lane (UK).
The full text of Target 16.b: "Promote and enforce non-discriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development." [ 6 ] It has one indicator. Indicator 16.b.1 is the "Proportion of population reporting having personally felt discriminated against or harassed in the previous 12 months on the basis of a ground of discrimination prohibited ...
WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) -Free speech organizations welcomed the news of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's release from jail in Britain but said the U.S. case had still set a bad precedent for ...
Sustainable Development Goal 1 ( SDG 1 or Global Goal 1 ), one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2015, calls for the end of poverty in all forms. The official wording is: "No Poverty". [ 1] Member countries have pledged to "Leave No One Behind": underlying the goal is a "powerful commitment to leave no ...