Dean Karlan led USAID’s first Office of the Chief Economist until the agency was dismantled. In this podcast, Dean shares lessons from his team’s efforts to guide evidence-informed decisions to improve the effectiveness of programming supported by US foreign assistance. He frankly assesses the constraints to foreign aid reform and discusses how he sought to deploy evidence to navigate difficult trade-offs.
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