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President Obama announces intent to appoint Esther Duflo to Global Development Council
(MIT) – President Barack Obama has announced he intends to appoint MIT Professor Esther Duflo to the President’s Global Development Council.
Established by executive order in September 2010 and administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the President’s Global Development Council is being shaped to advise the administration on U.S. global development policies and practices, to support new and existing public-private partnerships, and to increase awareness and action in support of development by soliciting public input on current and emerging issues in the field of global development.
Esther Duflo: “We must think differently about poverty”
PARIS, France (L’Express) Jan. 18, 2011 – At age 29, she became an associate professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At 37, she received the John Bates Clark Medal, which often announces the Nobel Prize in Economics. Behind a student draws shy, Esther Duflo hides a powerful and determined spirit. That of a pioneer.
Based in Boston, she traveled the world, from Asia to South Africa, through Europe, to develop its very practical method for evaluating action against poverty. J-PAL (Jameel Poverty Action Lab), she co-directs the MIT laboratory is requested by NGOs, governments and businesses.
Esther Duflo’s Radical Anti-Poverty Fight
The young researcher will, January 19, in Paris, the first study for a French group (Veolia Environnement). And just to finish, with the co-director of J-PAL, a new book, Poor Economics, which was published in April in the United States in October in France.
“My fight the most stubborn will to eradicate extreme poverty,” said Brazil’s new president at his inauguration on January 1. Can we really eradicate poverty eradicated as a disease?
Poverty is not a disease, it is a bundle of diseases. It is the result of a set of phenomena related to health, education and, more generally, the difficulty to achieve. Fight against poverty, is fighting against all these phenomena. In medicine, as in poverty, objectives continue to decline. And it is good. We begin by trying to eradicate extreme poverty – people who are starving – then, once this step, we are working to make sure everyone has access to education, and so on.
