and featuring a lead role like you've never seen before. to the ends justify the means. witnesses starts december 13th w. . this is a show coming up. over due bennett has been awarded the economics nobel for an experimental approach to economics. is does he have full fair and. very many offers for and i think that's very important that parents let kids discover what.

it's good to have you with us more than $700000000.00 people around the world survive on less than one us dollar 90 cents a day that's about the price of a cup of cappuccino the figure of one dollar 90 forms the international poverty line reducing the number of people living below it has been the able for what you did action programs wild wide well poverty rates have reduced by hauff since 2000 i'm not still needs to be done. 3 economists have recently been lauded for their efforts to find out what works best economists or would you ban a-g. michael kramer and s. to. have been jointly awarded the $29000.00 nobel prize in economics for a series of studies which sought to prove whether some widely held beliefs were

borne out by experience like do extra school days lead to better educated students does subsidised medicine improve health among the poor of i'll be asking what would you bet you what that means in a moment but 1st here's s. had to flow on hoping but that's pretty specific to something i didn't have that i said that on until they did i don't think enjoy. speaking like it was coming and. instead of the book that explains it surely we can make it if. joining me now on the line over here banditry one of the other covert knows of this is nobel prize for economics professor bannister firstly from one bandages to another congratulations to you and your colleagues are here jointly and thank you. i still holding on to hope. i don't 100 percent dramatically and.

i am trying to see if i can get there right now it has changed rather drastically it would say in terms of just the number of hours i have to kind of sit and meditate or or do research rather than. speak on t.v. or travel somewhere for the death of that so far is a little bit of a shock to the system do i sense a bit of regret that you won the nobel prize for economics no not in the least and just i. i would much delighted to have this prize i wish i could somehow put the genie back in exactly the right size box and then keep my did i but not necessarily the time commitment that it's currently implying let's just talk about there's a war now that it's out of the box now you're no colleagues i've been a voter for

a quarter experimental approach to alleviating global poverty what approach is that when you explain it to less a model such as myself so i think the way policy is often done is somebody thinks this must be a good idea that's often a reflection of some piece of the theoretical economic thinking here or to call political thinking. something that hasn't particularly had any and. grounding in you know the very specifics of reality and so you do policy this makes sense intuitive and then suddenly half of those don't who are in the north and how those don't work and then we say that policy doesn't work. you know there's a general reaction against well it's impossible to do anything in fact we just are

doing things badly we should be. trying to figure out not whether it was in our head but whether it was in people's lives and often we just miss facts of others about people's lives and therefore we get it wrong so i think the great great advantage of the. experiment of the pros is that if you if you want a policy to be tested unit tested using an experiment you give it just like a medical trial but on a vast scale to give it to 50000 people and not give 825-0000 people and you see is the 50000 people of the 600 villages that got a new policy if they end up in any way different from the ones that didn't that's right and then basically that has advised to give you the pretty good level on some

promise about it for you are born in india and spent a considerable part of your life there including in delhi and kolkata 2 cities i myself have ties to i wonder if your experiences in india shaped your view of how the problem of poverty should be tackled. well in one very specific way yes i mean i grew up. at the edge of a very large slum and and when you do that you learn with love in a healthy respect for the the accu men the energy. the general willingness to do new things all the people who are very very poor and that there is not that they lack the sort of some kind of core human capital to do that is just that they don't have

education and money they don't have the time to sit and think pressures from all sides so you learn i think i think one of the things is very influential in my life is never believe that poor people are an interesting kind of like you know little robots you press a button that will that growing up among them playing with them you know every day they think they're really give you that confidence. lastly provided an idiot now you're going to be held up as an example of success and someone to emulate in india particularly for many years to come in fact for evah i know from my own experiences growing up in india that there was always a constant warning or refrain from people around that if you don't study or go to the best universities or don't have a future you're not going to be successful now you're certainly going to the best universities in india and the us what would you advise young people listening to

our interview is success only got into it if you attend top educational institutes and not a fantastic student. noah and i are there or the things wouldn't be in in in the middle school was suddenly a very mediocre store and i think that is very important that parents and kids discover what they're good at i mean there's this pitchforking of everybody into. the medical school and if you don't get into reality you go to some little less good medical school i think i think we need to find you know a more diverse package for the talented students talent is i think we're often end up with people who would have been amazing boy but. i really think that one of the things that. i think we didn't really we

were really not encouraged to do is leave you from that beaten path and i think it's useful to be. overage advantage of trying to find him nobel prize winner in economics joint economics thank you very much for speaking to us. how can religion be harnessed in the fight against climate change is it even possible that's an issue that did up you wanted to explore as part of an equal islam series it organized a dialogue with south asian religious and political leaders together with environmental activists in pakistan's largest city. as religion often plays a huge role in people's lives using religious narratives that support an eco friendly agenda could help raise awareness about climate change. some of the charms was of the gathering let's listen to his introduction and to the voices he heard there. don't you will host

a 2nd eco slum conference here in karachi pakistan the 1st meeting was held in jakarta indonesia last month and a 3rd meeting is planned in dhaka bangladesh sometime soon the aim of this conferenced is to highlight the global climate change problem buying gaging with local communities and in this case the muslim community and religious scholars aim is to highlight islam's eco friendly messages government offer shows religious scholars and civil society activists gather here to discuss a very serious problem yeah i think it's a very useful initiative because we actually have bringing they're bringing together people using religion and many are asking them to lake participate in such a huge movement so i think this baby is but i think it is quite important to bring religions together with the issue of climate change and environmental protection because religious leaders reach people on

a certain way which maybe media and governments call on truly reach them so i think it's important to have this discussion and also to remind religions all sorts of religions that in their programs and in their believes the protection of the environment is has always been there and i think i don't agree with their idea their leaving should come together because we can bring religions together what we can do is. we can bring together the followers of different religions. giving johns to leaders of different religions to talk about environmental changes security and safety all for human being and then what i mean is good but you're good picker down to the common people and i think the governments in pakistan and other 3rd world countries like us. i have such issues that they have to deal with

mostly to stay in paul that they don't have time for for these things and i feel that environment climate change as an issue can only effectively be dealt or addressed when the government and the society works to get this or that is the idea of the government and hopefully we'll work with the people to bring about real change. that was a sham and shams distant of participants of the conference in. that the better leader now with images from hong kong often local election results came out in which the pro-democracy groups go to the result of their seats but you're watching. for.

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