Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty

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So here it is. You can check: I am short, I'm French,
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I have a pretty strong French accent,
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so that's going to be clear in a moment.
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Maybe a sobering thought
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and something you all know about.
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And I suspect many of you gave
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something to the people of Haiti this year.
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And there is something else
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I believe in the back of your mind
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you also know.
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That is, every day,
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25,000 children die
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of entirely preventable causes.
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That's a Haiti earthquake every eight days.
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And I suspect many of you probably gave something
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towards that problem as well,
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but somehow it doesn't happen
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with the same intensity.
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So why is that?
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Well, here is a thought experiment for you.
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Imagine you have a few million dollars that you've raised --
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maybe you're a politician in a developing country
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and you have a budget to spend. You want to spend it on the poor:
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How do you go about it?
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Do you believe the people who tell you
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that all we need to do is to spend money?
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That we know how to eradicate poverty,
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we just need to do more?
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Or do you believe the people who tell you that
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aid is not going to help, on the contrary it might hurt,
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it might exacerbate corruption, dependence, etc.?
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Or maybe you turn to the past.
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After all, we have spent billions of dollars on aid.
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Maybe you look at the past and see.
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Has it done any good?
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And, sadly, we don't know.
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And worst of all, we will never know.
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And the reason is that -- take Africa for example.
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Africans have already got a lot of aid.
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These are the blue bars.
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And the GDP in Africa is not making much progress.
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Okay, fine. How do you know what
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would have happened without the aid?
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Maybe it would have been much worse,
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or maybe it would have been better.
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We have no idea. We don't know what the counterfactual is.
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There's only one Africa.
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So what do you do?
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To give the aid, and hope and pray that something comes out of it?
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Or do you focus on your everyday life
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and let the earthquake every eight days
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continue to happen?
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The thing is, if we don't know
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whether we are doing any good,
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we are not any better
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than the Medieval doctors and their leeches.
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Sometimes the patient gets better, sometimes the patient dies.
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Is it the leeches? Is it something else?
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We don't know.
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So here are some other questions.
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They're smaller questions,
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but they are not that small.
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Immunization, that's the cheapest way
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to save a child's life.
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And the world has spent a lot of money on it:
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The GAVI and the Gates Foundations
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are each pledging a lot of money towards it,
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and developing countries themselves have been doing a lot of effort.
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And yet, every year
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at least 25 million children
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do not get the immunization they should get.
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So this is what you call a "last mile problem."
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The technology is there,
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the infrastructure is there,
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and yet it doesn't happen.
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So you have your million.
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How do you use your million
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to solve this last mile problem?
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And here's another question:
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Malaria. Malaria kills almost
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900,000 people every year,
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most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa,
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most of them under five.
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In fact, that is the leading cause of under-five mortality.
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We already know how to kill malaria,
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but some people come to you and say,
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"You have your millions. How about bed nets?"
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Bed nets are very cheap.
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For 10 dollars, you can manufacture and ship
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an insecticide treated bed net
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and you can teach someone to use them.
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And, not only do they protect the people who sleep under them,
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but they have these great contagion benefits.
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If half of a community sleeps under a net,
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the other half also benefits
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because the contagion of the disease spread.
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And yet, only a quarter of kids at risk sleep under a net.
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Societies should be willing to go out
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and subsidize the net, give them for free,
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or, for that matter, pay people to use them
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because of those contagion benefits.
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"Not so fast," say other people.
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"If you give the nets for free,
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people are not going to value them.
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They're not going to use them,
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or at least they're not going to use them as bed nets,
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maybe as fishing nets."
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So, what do you do?
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Do you give the nets for free to maximize coverage,
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or do you make people pay
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in order to make sure that they really value them?
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How do you know?
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And a third question: Education.
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Maybe that's the solution, maybe we should send kids to school.
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But how do you do that?
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Do you hire teachers? Do you build more schools?
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Do you provide school lunch?
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How do you know?
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So here is the thing.
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I cannot answer the big question,
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whether aid did any good or not.
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But these three questions, I can answer them.
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It's not the Middle Ages anymore,
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it's the 21st century.
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And in the 20th century,
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randomized, controlled trials
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have revolutionized medicine
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by allowing us to distinguish
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between drugs that work
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and drugs that don't work.
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And you can do the same
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randomized, controlled trial for social policy.
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You can put social innovation to the same
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rigorous, scientific tests
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that we use for drugs.
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And in this way, you can take the guesswork
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out of policy-making
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by knowing what works,
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what doesn't work and why.
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And I'll give you some examples with those three questions.
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So I start with immunization.
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Here's Udaipur District, Rajasthan. Beautiful.
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Well, when I started working there,
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about one percent of children
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were fully immunized.
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That's bad, but there are places like that.
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Now, it's not because the vaccines are not there --
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they are there and they are free --
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and it's not because parents do not care about their kids.
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The same child that is not immunized against measles,
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if they do get measles, parents will spend
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thousands of rupees to help them.
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So you get these empty village subcenters
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and crowded hospitals.
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So what is the problem?
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Well, part of the problem, surely, is people do not fully understand.
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After all, in this country as well,
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all sorts of myths and misconceptions
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go around immunization.
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So if that's the case, that's difficult,
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because persuasion is really difficult.
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But maybe there is another problem as well.
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It's going from intention to action.
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Imagine you are a mother
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in Udaipur District, Rajasthan.
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You have to walk a few kilometers to get your kids immunized.
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And maybe when you get there, what you find is this:
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The subcenter is closed. Ao you have to come back,
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and you are so busy and you have so many other things to do,
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you will always tend to postpone and postpone,
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and eventually it gets too late.
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Well, if that's the problem, then that's much easier.
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Because A, we can make it easy,
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and B, we can maybe
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give people a reason to act today,
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rather than wait till tomorrow.
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So these are simple ideas, but we didn't know.
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So let's try them.
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So what we did is we did a randomized, controlled trial
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in 134 villages in Udaipur Districts.
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So the blue dots
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are selected randomly.
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We made it easy -- I'll tell you how in a moment.
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In the red dots, we made it easy
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and gave people a reason to act now.
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The white dots are comparisons, nothing changed.
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So we make it easy by organizing
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this monthly camp where people can
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get their kids immunized.
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And then you make it easy
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and give a reason to act now
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by adding a kilo of lentils for each immunization.
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Now, a kilo of lentils is tiny.
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It's never going to convince anybody
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to do something that they don't want to do.
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On the other hand, if your problem is you tend to postpone,
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then it might give you a reason to act today
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rather than later.
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So what do we find?
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Well, beforehand, everything is the same.
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That's the beauty of randomization.
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Afterwards,
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the camp -- just having the camp --
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increases immunization from six percent to 17 percent.
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That's full immunization.
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That's not bad, that's a good improvement.
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Add the lentils and you reach to 38 percent.
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So here you've got your answer.
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Make it easy and give a kilo of lentils,
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you multiply immunization rate by six.
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Now, you might say, "Well, but it's not sustainable.
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We cannot keep giving lentils to people."
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Well, it turns out it's wrong economics,
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because it is cheaper
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to give lentils than not to give them.
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Since you have to pay for the nurse anyway,
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the cost per immunization
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ends up being cheaper if you give incentives than if you don't.
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How about bed nets?
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Should you give them for free, or should you ask people to pay for them?
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So the answer hinges
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on the answer to three simple questions.
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One is: If people must pay for a bed net,
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are they going to purchase them?
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The second one is:
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If I give bed nets for free,
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are people going to use them?
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And the third one is:
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Do free bed nets discourage future purchase?
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The third one is important
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because if we think people get used to handouts,
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it might destroy markets to distribute free bed nets.
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Now this is a debate that has generated
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a lot of emotion and angry rhetoric.
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It's more ideological than practical,
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but it turns out it's an easy question.
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We can know the answer to this question.
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We can just run an experiment.
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And many experiments have been run, and they all have the same results,
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so I'm just going to talk to you about one.
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And this one that was in Kenya,
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they went around and distributed to people
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vouchers, discount vouchers.
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So people with their voucher
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could get the bed net in the local pharmacy.
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And some people get 100 percent discount,
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and some people get 20 percent discounts,
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and some people get 50 percent discount, etc.
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And now we can see what happens.
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So, how about the purchasing?
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Well, what you can see is that
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when people have to pay for their bed nets,
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the coverage rate really falls down a lot.
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So even with partial subsidy,
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three dollars is still not the full cost of a bed net,
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and now you only have 20 percent of the people with the bed nets,
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you lose the health immunity, that's not great.
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Second thing is, how about the use?
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Well, the good news is, people, if they have the bed nets,
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will use the bed nets regardless of how they got it.
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If they get it for free, they use it.
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If they have to pay for it, they use it.
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How about the long term?
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In the long term,
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people who got the free bed nets,
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one year later, were offered the option
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to purchase a bed net at two dollars.
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And people who got the free one
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were actually more likely to purchase the second one
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than people who didn't get a free one.
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So people do not get used to handouts; they get used to nets.
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Maybe we need to give them a little bit more credit.
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So, that's for bed nets. So you will think, "That's great.
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You know how to immunize kids, you know how to give bed nets."
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But what politicians need is a range of options.
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They need to know: Out of all the things I could do,
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what is the best way to achieve my goals?
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So suppose your goal is to get kids into school.
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There are so many things you could do. You could pay for uniforms,
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you could eliminate fees, you could build latrines,
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you could give girls sanitary pads, etc., etc.
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So what's the best?
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Well, at some level, we think
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all of these things should work.
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So, is that sufficient? If we think they should work intuitively,
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should we go for them?
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Well, in business, that's certainly not the way we would go about it.
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Consider for example
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transporting goods.
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Before the canals were invented
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in Britain before the Industrial Revolution,
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goods used to go on horse carts.
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And then canals were built,
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and with the same horseman and the same horse,
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you could carry ten times as much cargo.
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So should they have continued
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to carry the goods on the horse carts, on the ground,
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that they would eventually get there?
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Well, if that had been the case,
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there would have been no Industrial Revolution.
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So why shouldn't we do the same with social policy?
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In technology, we spend so much time
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experimenting, fine-tuning,
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getting the absolute cheapest way to do something,
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so why aren't we doing that with social policy?
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Well, with experiments, what you can do
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is answer a simple question.
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Suppose you have 100 dollars to spend
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on various interventions.
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How many extra years of education
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do you get for your hundred dollars?
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Now I'm going to show you
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what we get with various education interventions.
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So the first ones are if you want the usual suspects,
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hire teachers, school meals,
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school uniforms, scholarships.
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And that's not bad. For your hundred dollars,
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you get between one and three extra years of education.
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Things that don't work so well is bribing parents,
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just because so many kids are already going to school
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that you end up spending a lot of money.
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And here are the most surprising results.
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Tell people the benefits of education,
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that's very cheap to do.
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So for every hundred dollars you spend doing that,
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you get 40 extra years of education.
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And, in places where there are worms,
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intestinal worms,
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cure the kids of their worms.
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And for every hundred dollars,
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you get almost 30 extra years of education.
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So this is not your intuition,
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this is not what people would have gone for,
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and yet, these are the programs that work.
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We need that kind of information, we need more of it,
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and then we need to guide policy.
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So now, I started from the big problem, and I couldn't answer it.
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And I cut it into smaller questions,
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and I have the answer to these smaller questions.
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And they are good, scientific, robust answers.
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So let's go back to Haiti for a moment.
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In Haiti, about 200,000 people died --
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actually, a bit more by the latest estimate.
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And the response of the world was great:
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Two billion dollars got pledged just last month,
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so that's about 10,000 dollars per death.
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That doesn't sound like that much when you think about it.
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But if we were willing to spend 10,000 dollars
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for every child under five who dies,
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that would be 90 billion per year
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just for that problem.
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And yet it doesn't happen.
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So, why is that?
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Well, I think what part of the problem is that,
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in Haiti, although the problem is huge,
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somehow we understand it, it's localized.
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You give your money to Doctors Without Borders,
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you give your money to Partners In Health,
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and they'll send in the doctors, and they'll send in the lumber,
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and they'll helicopter things out and in.
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And the problem of poverty is not like that.
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So, first, it's mostly invisible;
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second, it's huge;
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and third, we don't know whether we are doing the right thing.
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There's no silver bullet.
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You cannot helicopter people out of poverty.
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And that's very frustrating.
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But look what we just did today.
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I gave you three simple answers to three questions:
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Give lentils to immunize people,
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provide free bed nets, deworm children.
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With immunization or bed nets,
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you can save a life for 300 dollars per life saved.
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With deworming, you can get
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an extra year of education for three dollars.
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So we cannot eradicate poverty just yet,
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but we can get started.
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And maybe we can get started small
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with things that we know are effective.
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Here's an example of how this can be powerful.
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Deworming.
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Worms have a little bit of a problem grabbing the headlines.
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They are not beautiful and don't kill anybody.
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And yet, when the young global leader in Davos
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showed the numbers I gave you,
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they started Deworm the World.
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And thanks to Deworm the World,
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and the effort of many country governments and foundations,
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20 million school-aged children got dewormed in 2009.
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So this evidence is powerful.
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It can prompt action.
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So we should get started now.
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It's not going to be easy.
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It's a very slow process.
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You have to keep experimenting, and sometimes ideology
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has to be trumped by practicality.
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And sometimes what works somewhere doesn't work elsewhere.
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So it's a slow process,
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but there is no other way.
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These economics I'm proposing,
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it's like 20th century medicine.
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It's a slow, deliberative process
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of discovery.
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There is no miracle cure,
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but modern medicine is saving
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millions of lives every year,
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and we can do the same thing.
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And now, maybe, we can go back to the bigger question
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that I started with at the beginning.
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I cannot tell you
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whether the aid we have spent in the past has made a difference,
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but can we come back here in 30 years
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and say, "What we have done,
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it really prompted a change for the better."
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I believe we can and I hope we will.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)
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