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"Good intentions and grand theories do not make a good programme. Programmes work best when they're based on a detailed und�er�standing of the problem being solved and how they are implemented on the ground."

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About Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), an MIT based global research center promoting the use of scientific evidence to inform poverty alleviation strategies

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