Nobel-winning couple on how to solve poverty

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Check out this video of MIT's Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee talking about their research in poverty and education. They are this year's co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Banerjee, Duflo, and  co-winnner, Harvard's Michael Kremer, used a novel approach involving drilling down into communities and asking small questions such as 'What are the factors that are hindering educational outcomes here?' and 'Can a public health campaign actually prevent the spread of disease?'.