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Global poverty and the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. A change of mainstream?

Gianfranco Vento, Paola Vezzani
April 2020 - n. 4
Keywords: Premio Nobel in Scienze economiche, studi sperimentali, povertà
Jel codes: A10, B40

The 2019 Nobel Prize has been awarded to 3 scholars – Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo e Michael Kremer – for their studies on fighting global poverty.Their research has in common a careful field work addressed to investigate focused and limited interventions which can produce a tangible outcome, in addition to assessing their effectiveness in a systematic and rigorous manner.This article, which represents another part of a much broader analysis, explains and describes the 2019 Nobel Prize Laureates and their research activities, trying to understand whether after half a century something has changed in relation to the academic mainstream.

 

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