Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer Appointed World Bank Chief Economist

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Michael Kremer, 61, has been named the next Chief Economist of the World Bank. Kremer is a Nobel Prize laureate who won the Economics Sciences award in 2019. He shared the prize with economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. The trio was recognized for their experimental research methods aimed at reducing global poverty.

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