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Meet Kremer, World Bank's new chief economist
The World Bank on Wednesday named Nobel laureate and University of Chicago professor Michael Kremer as its next chief economist, succeeding Indermit Gill, who retired last month.Kremer, 61, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019 jointly with Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.He will take charge on October 1, shortly before the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Bangkok, Thailand. He is the …
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