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...Labour’s candidate, Sue Jeffrey, was a hugely respected local figure and one of the architects of the new mayoralty....
...Germany’s Allianz, under fellow McKinseyite Oliver Bäte, is one of only two big European rivals (together with France’s Axa) that have outperformed it over that period....
...She studied first at the elite École Normale Supérieure in Paris, won tenure at MIT before turning 30 and won the John Bates Clark medal — often a precursor to a Nobel — in 2010....
...Some, such as Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs, argue that hunger and disease can be reduced by supplying practical things: better schools, free immunisations or anti-malarial bed nets....
...Duflo is one of the world’s star economists – tenured at MIT at 29, MacArthur Foundation “genius” fellow, winner of the 2010 John Bates Clark medal, the so-called “mini-Nobel”, and she’s still only 39....
...Jeffrey Schott, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, says: “It makes much more sense to try to do these things proactively than reject them out of hand.”...
...Steven D Levitt teaches economics at the University of Chicago and recently won the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark Medal for the best American economist under forty....
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