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The AP highlights Prof. Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee’s groundbreaking work aimed at reducing global poverty, for which they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. The laureates, “revolutionized developmental economics by pioneering field experiments that generate practical insights into how poor people respond to education, health care and other programs meant to lift them out of poverty.”