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NEW BOOKS
Economist Suggests Field Trials to Improve Aid Projects
By Anne W. Howard
Making Aid Work
edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee
To use international-aid dollars more effectively, to stimulate growth and ease poverty in developing countries, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee advocates using random tests to determine which programs actually work — and which are expensive and useless.
"In many ways...