“If we don’t know whether [aid is] doing any good, we are not any better than the medieval doctors and their leeches.” – Esther Duflo
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Eexperimenting and fine-tuning
“In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something — so why aren’t we doing that with social policy?” – Esther Duflo
You cannot
“There’s no silver bullet. You cannot helicopter people out of poverty.” – Esther Duflo