Michael Kremer: "A lot of people go into economics because they care about poverty."
Although the problems of poverty are often described as being intractable, Michael Kremer talks about the hopeful, practical steps that are being taken to alleviate poverty around the world. In this brief conversation with Adam Smith, recorded just after a friend had given him news of his Prize in Economic Sciences, he also reflects on the reasons that the randomized trials he pioneered in Kenya in the 1990s were so influential in shaping the field of development economics.