The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations. Ever since Adam Smith wrote ...

The experimental approach has “reshaped development economics, had a clear impact on policy and improved our ability to fight global poverty,” he said. Duflo, 46, said via a phone call from th ...

The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded Monday to three researchers — including the youngest-ever recipient — whose approach to alleviating global poverty has been widely adopted in the field.

THE MOST important question in economics is also the hardest ... But more than 700m people remain in extreme poverty, and the number grows every day in certain parts of the world, in particular ...