Abhijit Banerjee, an economist from Calcutta, is calling for a new form of development aid. He used the kind of randomized testing known from medical research, and the results cast doubt on some of the conventional wisdom of fighting poverty. DW met the lateral thinker during his visit in northern Germany.
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