After receiving the Shera’s Shera at the STAR Ananda Shera Bangali Awards 2012, Abhijit Banerjee sat down with the Telegraph for an interview.

The purpose of randomized control trials is not to debunk the idea of helping poor countries. On the contrary, such work bolsters the case for aid by ensuring that dollars are well spent.

The Computer Access Mentorship Program (CAMP) is a step into the future for a program that has successfully served 882 public schools, 24,654 public school teachers, and a little over a million students, as well as distributed almost 204,000 children’s books over the course of 12 years.

It sounds too good to be true: If we could just swap out dirty indoor cooking stoves in the developing world with cleaner versions, we could cut pollution, save lives, and slow climate change. Promising, yes? But, like most things that sound too good to be true, it’s not that easy.