professor esther duflo, welcome to hardtalk.arding the prize to you and your fellow economists, abhijit banerjee and michael kremer, the nobel committee praised your experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. how would you explain what you do? so the idea is very simple. so first of all, you take a big problem, like how are we going to eradicate poverty, and break it into manageable pieces, pieces that — you know, smaller questions, but questions that admit rigourous answers. and then, once you have one of those questions, you deploy something which is very much like a randomised controlled trial in medicine to test one approach against the other. so, to give you an example, suppose that you want to know how to motivate parents to take their kids to be immunised. you could set up a randomised controlled trial, where in some villages, randomly chosen, you work with members of the community that are going to mobilise parents to get their kids immunised. in other communities, you send reminder text messages. and in yet an

esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel. it's an honor to have you here. really appreciate it.ard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now.

esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel. this is a very important book. for hard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> on this special thanksgiving weekend edition of the 11th hour, we share a guide to some of our favorite books and authors of the past year from donald trump's takeover of the republican party. so kim jong-un's brutal regime in north korea. to the most brazen intelligence heist of this century. and to the raid that took down bin laden. all of it as this special edition of "the 11th hour" gets under way. greetings once again from nbc headquarters here in new york. thanksgiving 2019 puts us at day 1,044 of this trump administration. and we want to take you through some of the most compelling stories that we have been told in this very studio. throughout this broadcast, we'

mobility is half what they were in 1958. >> esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel.to have you here. appreciate it. "good economics for hard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight, what promises to be a colossal week in the impeachment effort begins with more transcripts being released, more testimony from the inside. further confirmation that military aid was held up for political dirt on the bidens. as another storyline emerges, trump's chief of staff, mick

esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel. it's an honor to have you here. really appreciate it. this is a very important book. "good economics for hard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. someone is trying to spread doubt about last week's results of the election in kentucky. even though there is no doubt. shadowy operators pushing the narrative online and what it tells us about 2022. "the 11th hour" gets under way for a new week on a monday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. day 1,026 of the trump administration. in less than 48 hours, house democrats call their first witnesses to give public testimony in the impeachment inquiry. tonight they released more transcripts of those closed door depositions from defense department official lawyer camera cooper along with state department officials katherine croft and christopher anderson. laura cooper, only pentagon official to testify, spoke to lawmakers on 23 october, the same day that republ

. >> esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel. it's a real honor to have you here. appreciate it. "good economics for hard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. >>> tonight, what promises to be a colossal week in the impeachment effort begins with more transcripts being released, more testimony from the inside. further confirmation that military aid was held up for political dirt on the bidens. as another storyline emerges, trump's chief of staff, mick mulvaney put a hold on the aid to ukraine for fear of upsetting the russians. someone is trying to spread doubt about last results of the election in kentucky. even though there is no doubt. shadowy operators pushing the narrative online and what it tells us about 2022. >>> another democrat mulling over getting into this race as "the 11th hour" gets under way for a new week on a monday night. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. day 1,026 of the trump administration. in less than 48 hours, house dem

esther duflo, congratulations on the nobel. this is a very important book. "good economics for hard times." this book belongs at the center of the presidential campaign. that is tonight's last word. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> on this special thanksgiving weekend edition of the 11th hour, we share a guide to some of our favorite books and authors of the past year from donald trump's takeover of the republican party. so kim jong-un's brutal regime in north korea. to the most brazen intelligence heist of this century. and to the raid that took down bin laden. all of it as this special edition of "the 11th hour" gets under way. greetings once again from nbc headquarters here in new york. thanksgiving 2019 puts us at day 1,044 of this trump administration. and we want to take you through some of the most compelling stories that we have been told in this very studio. throughout this broadcast, we'll listen to the people who told those stories. the authors of some of the most compelling books we've read and talked about this year. these men

s abhijit banerjee and esther durro, the first d couple to win the nobel prize in economics. duflo7, is also the youngest economics laureate ever and only the second woman to receive the prize. they met in the mid '90s, when duoko, then a grad student, bannerjee'se on economics and poverty. and, she says... >> i was going to study development no matter what happen. >> reporter: development to help poor people with data. careful thinking.ink sort of not go with your intuitions. because our intuitions are often wrong. >> reporter: or they've been taught to you in economics classes. >> by authority figures. >> reporter: bannerjee was such a figure. but economic theory, his forte, was totally divorced from the mumbaiborhood in which he grew up. >> and i played with the kids .from the slum all the ti and i think over time i started to realize that what i was doing could be connected with my previous life. >> reporter: previous life as an >> no, previous life as a little boy playing with other littl boys who didn't go to school. a little bit conscious of theys fact that the economics tha