Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize for Economics: “” Free patents help poor countries and save us too “

Esther Duflo teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Boston. At just 47 years old, in 2019, she became the youngest Nobel Prize in Economics in history for her experimental studies on poverty. The absence of solidarity of the West towards poor countries in the face of the pandemic – says the economist whose Lottare contro la poverty will be published in these days – leaves her astonished: “I do not know how world leaders manage to look at themselves again. mirror”.