• Esther Duflo
• Co-founder, Poverty Action Lab

• Speaking at TED2010
• February 2010
• Long Beach, CA

Social experiments to fight poverty: Alleviating poverty is more guesswork than science, and lack of data on aid's impact raises questions about how to provide it. But Clark Medal-winner Esther Duflo says it's possible to know which development efforts help and which hurt -- by testing solutions with randomized trials.