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Nicholas Stern

Sir Nicholas Stern is the head of the U.K. Government Economic Service and the former chief economist of the World Bank.

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Response: Can We Stop Global Warming? — Forum Response

The scientific case on climate change now seems overwhelming: we face an enormous problem and tremendous costs for inaction. The latest science also gives us insight into the magnitude of damage we...
Nicholas Stern

Response: Making Aid Work — Forum Response

As Abhijit Banerjee explains, randomized experiments solve a major problem: how to cleanly identify the effects of a given development program or project. They can thereby make interventions more cost effective and...
Nicholas Stern, F. Halsey Rogers, Ian Goldin

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