Esther Duflo: “This government needs to change its mindset”

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The 2019 Nobel Economics winner holds the Chair of Poverty and Public Policy at the Collège de France. Exclusive interview before her first lesson.





By Beatrice Parrino

Esther Duflo, in Paris, September 5, 2022.
© Sébastien Leban / SÉBASTIEN LEBAN FOR “LE POINT”

Reading time: 10 minutes


Philippe aghion a little less alone at the top of the academic world. In the coming days, a second economist will join the prestigious Collège de France to take up the chair of law. A professor of a different kind, tied to experiments in real situations, will dissect the relationship between poverty and public policy: French-American and co-recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, Esther Duflo. The inaugural lesson, which is scheduled for November 24, will be an opportunity to “look at the path taken since 2009”, the year in which he was already presiding at the Collège de France, as a visiting professor. So ? “My observations are optimistic, although clouds on the horizon are associated with global warming, tell us development economists. Until pa…


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