Esther Duflo sits with Le Monde to discuss her career journey, including co-founding the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT and winning the Nobel prize in economics with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer.
Esther highlights the importance of economists making tangible improvements on the world around them, and her pride at achieving this at J-PAL: “I’m proud of it, of having set things up so that others can empower themselves.”