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Michael Kremer Interview in Newsweek

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November 27, 2005

Michael Kremer is interviewed in the current issue of Newsweek:

Are there any precedents for your approach?Yes, in the U.K. in 1994 there was an outbreak of a bacterial infection causing brain swelling. The government said that if a treatment were produced, they’d buy it. It was, they did, and cases of infection went down by 90 percent.

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