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Fifty-one years after a seminal Yale study on economic growth, economists and policymakers gathered on campus for a conference on sustainable development.
Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, a leading expert on economic growth and the uses and risks of automation, has been awarded the WZB Berlin Science Center's A.SK Award for fundamental contributions to labor economics, macroeconomics, and political economy.