Randomized Control Trials In The Field

Randomized Control Trials in the Field of Development provides a critical perspective on the use of randomized control trials in development and poverty alleviation policies, warning against their excessive use and proposing improvements and alternatives.

Florent Bédécarrats, Head of data management unit, Nantes Métropole,Isabelle Guérin, Senior Research Fellow, CESSMA, IRD (French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development),François Roubaud, Senior Research Fellow, DIAL, IRD (French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development),

Florent Bédécarrats is head of the data management unit at Nantes Métropole.


Isabelle Guérin is Senior Research Fellow at IRD (French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development), Cessma (Center for Social Science Studies on the African, American, and Asian Worlds), Affiliate Researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry, and Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study (2019-2020).


François Roubaud is Senior Research Fellow at IRD (French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development), DIAL (Development, Institutions, Globalisation).