Fwd: FW: Lecture/Dinner with Esther Duflo, author of "Poor Economics", MacArthur Fellow, Poverty Action Lab Director, and MIT alumna/faculty member - Monday, October 10, 6pm

[Ken Endo]

FYI
Lecture from the director of J-PAL. RSVP is required.
KE

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From: Laura Sampath <lsam...@mit.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:05 PM
Subject: FW: Lecture/Dinner with Esther Duflo, author of "Poor
Economics", MacArthur Fellow, Poverty Action Lab Director, and MIT
alumna/faculty member - Monday, October 10, 6pm
To: "g...@mit.edu" <g...@mit.edu>, William Li <wp...@mit.edu>

Hey GPI -

This is a fabulous opportunity!

Laura

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Hello everyone,

Does foreign aid help or hinder international development?
Are you interested in poverty alleviation in the developing world?
Why do the world's poor need to borrow in order to save, go to school
but often do not learn, or miss out on free life-saving immunizations
but pay for drugs that they do not need?

The MIT Presidential Fellows/Sidney Pacific Distinguished Lecture
Series is excited to present:

How can social science help us fight poverty?
Professor Esther Duflo, Department of Economics, MIT
MIT Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence (NW86), 70 Pacific Street, Cambridge
Monday, October 10, 6:00PM (networking and refreshments), 6:30pm (Iecture)
RSVP (optional for lecture only, required for lecture + dinner):
http://goo.gl/iW4bu

Esther Duflo leads the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, which
has pioneered the use of Randomized Evaluations (REs) to answer
questions critical to poverty alleviation around the world, including
in Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
J-PAL's mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based
on scientific evidence. She is a 2009 MacArthur Genius Grant
recipient, the co-author, with Abhijit Banerjee, of "Poor Economics: A
Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty", and one of
Foreign Policy's top 100 intellectuals, The Economist's top 8 young
economists, and TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the
world.

The MIT Presidential Fellows/Sidney Pacific Distinguished Lecture
Series hosts leading thinkers at Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence,
MIT's largest graduate community. Lectures are open to the public and
followed by dinner for up to 40 lecture attendees and the speaker in
the Housemaster's Residence.

Don't forget to RSVP! http://goo.gl/iW4bu

Some additional links:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/8681481/Esther-Duflo-Can-this-woman-change-the-world.html
http://www.povertyactionlab.org/
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/duflo-clark-0423.html

See you Monday, October 10!

William Li and David Kwabi
Co-Chairs, Committee for Scholarly Interactions (CoSI)
Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence
sp-cos...@mit.edu

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Lab., Biomechatronics group
email: ke...@media.mit.edu
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