Atlas of Trust. Data and Analysis as Tools for Change

French economist and Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo receives the Taobuk Award in recognition of an intellectual journey that has transformed the way economic research engages with reality. Her empirical method, based on field studies and controlled experiments on the dynamics of poverty, and rooted in listening to the most vulnerable communities, demonstrates how trust among citizens, institutions, and researchers is an essential condition for translating data into real change.