Esther Duflo Quotes
What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.
Kuper, Simon. "Lunch with the FT: Esther Duflo." Financial Times, 25 Nov. 2011.
Spanish Colonial Policy and Practice was generally terrible and particularly so in the Philippines, See {629450}. So it was relatively easy for the President to document genuine improvements our imperialism had produced. However, the Filipinos would have preferred to make progress as an independent country.
He did adopt a program of extensive building of apartments, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. But the nation was in a virtual dictatorship of him and his wife with little regard for human rights. The rapid steding on construction was then followed by his program of austerity in which food became so scarce that malnutrition was common and many were at the verge of starvation to pay his programs. He and his wife were convicted at a show trial and executed immediately afterward.
Esther Duflo, FBA is a French–American economist who is a professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which was established in 2003. She shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
