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Public Lecture (video): Tackling extreme poverty through programmes targeting the world's ultra-poor

Video 17 Dec 2015 Firms and Entrepreneurship

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Robin Burgess

Director, IGC and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Oriana Bandiera

Sir Anthony Atkinson Chair in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Esther Duflo

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Tackling extreme poverty: Evidence from the field

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Public lecture: Tackling extreme poverty through programmes targeting the world's ultra-poor

9 December 2015 London, United Kingdom
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