Can randomised controlled trials end poverty?

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, grade: 67.0, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, language: English, abstract: This essay provides an overview of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and their meteoric rise. Then the author discusses key limitations to the use of RCTs, from a theoretical and methodological lens and provides a co...