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Course promotes scientific approach in poverty fight
11-07-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab is technically located in Building E60 on the edge of east campus. But the real lab is a primary school in a sub-Saharan African town or an unemployment line in a suburb of Paris.
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