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"Words from Asia and the Pacific" is a series of interviews conducted by Jean-François Sabouret, Director of the Asie-Imasie Network (CNRS), with humanities researchers and experts on Asia and the Pacific. Christian Huetz de Lemps is a French geographer who was born on 12 May 1938 in Charenton-le-Pont (94). While being a top-level sportsman, he continued his geography studies. In 1961, he was a member of the French volleyball team and that same year raked second at the "agrégation"…

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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, world-renowned economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019
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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo is awarded Prize in Economic Sciences
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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, world-renowned economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019
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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, world-renowned economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019
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Esther Duflo, 37, is professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston (United States). This former student of Ecole normale supérieure is helping import the idea of real-world experimentation - or, more precisely, the randomized impact assessment method - into the field of economics. She addresses the question of development through a combination of basic research and fieldwork, bringing practical answers to fields as varied as health, education, agriculture and access to…

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Esther Duflo, world-renowned economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019
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A portrait of Claire Waelbroeck, a paleoclimatologist at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette. This young researcher, of Belgian origin, winner of the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2003, describes her scientific work. She studies past climate variation through the analysis of marine sediment and polar ice. Her research aims at reconstructing natural climate variability in order to understand the current climate more fully.

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